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From: fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org (Axel Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Virtual terminals in 386 IX
Message-ID: <JXYF19E@utower.gopas.sub.org>
Date: 24 May 90 21:54:34 GMT
References: <4056@castle.ed.ac.uk> <40800011@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu> <145@epicb.com>
Reply-To: fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org
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dean@truevision.com (Dean Riddlebarger) writes:
>In article <40800011@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu> brando@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu writes:
>>Sure...
>>ISC Unix
>><ALT><SYS-REQ> [1-3,8]

>Or, if you latch onto a little program called keybind, you can alter
>your rc scripts to boot the console keyboard with:
><ALT> [F1-F8]
>as your virtual terminal hot keys.
>Much better....

Forget it. If you do that it's fine for normal working. But if you have
X-Windows running on one virtual console and you switch to that screen
you always get several garbage characters.

-Axel
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