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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Virtual terminals in 386 IX
Message-ID: <15558@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 29 May 90 01:50:58 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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>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....

Best of all -- modify keybind so that a single easy-to-hit Alt key is
mapped to VT_NEXT.  Then you can flip around between VT screens with the
greatest of ease.  I hardly ever address them individually except when
creating a new one.