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On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:24:44PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote |
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> I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, |
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> when the TTY's involved seem to be 1 & 2 . In fact, |
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> I've suppressed higher-numbered TTY 3-6 in /etc/inittab . |
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> Another test reveals that Ctl-Alt-F3 returns to the X session, |
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> so perhaps the command to return uses the next free F key. |
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> Can anyone confirm that ? Anyway the problem is solved. |
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My own setup is somewhat non-standard. I have... |
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# TERMINALS |
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c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux |
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c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux |
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c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux |
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c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux |
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c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux |
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c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux |
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c7:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty7 linux |
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c8:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty8 linux |
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c9:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty9 linux |
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I have a regular user account. I launch X, which takes tty10. I have |
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a second "scratch" account for certain tasks, and viewing Google and |
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other video sites in 400x300 mode or lower. I tell it to use display :1, |
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which is tty11. tty12 is used by kernel log messages. |
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A hint for tweaking xorg.conf files. I have several files in /etc/X11 |
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i.e. /etc/X11/1024xorg.conf /etc/X11/2048xorg.conf /etc/X11/320xorg.conf |
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/etc/X11/360xorg.conf /etc/X11/400xorg.conf /etc/X11/800xorg.conf and |
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/etc/X11/xorg.conf. My regular account has a script ~/bin/x |
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#! /bin/bash |
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startx -- -nolisten tcp -nosilk -config ${1}xorg.conf & |
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and the scratch account has ~/bin/x1 |
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#! /bin/bash |
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startx -- :1 -nolisten tcp -nosilk -config ${1}xorg.conf & |
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The regular account launches X with the command "x" to give me a |
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1280x1024 screen. When I'm editing large digital photos, I use the |
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command "x 2048". This launches X with the file 2048xorg.conf, which |
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I've set to give me 2048x1536. When I want to run at 400x300 for |
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viewing videos, I launch with "x1 400", which invokes X with the config |
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file 400xorg.conf. I generally run with the following textmode ttys... |
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tty1 regular user, mutt (email) |
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tty2 regular user, slrn (usenet) |
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tty3 regular user, general purpose console |
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tty4 scratch account |
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tty5 scratch account |
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tty7 console when ssh'ing into the other machine (I have a 1999 Dell |
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450 mhz PIII that is my emergency backup machine). |
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tty8 root (occasional use only) when doing admin stuff that requires |
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root (emerge sync, etc). |
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tty9 regular user, used for launching X. I find that X spits out a lot |
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of logging garbage to the tty that launched it. |
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tty10 used by X session :0 |
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tty11 used by X session :1 |
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tty12 used by kernel logger for message output |
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I run textmode at 80x48 (YES, forty-eight rows with 10-pixel-high |
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font, which is much easier on the eyes than 8x8 font). |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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