[plug] Accessing VTs over 12

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Mon Dec 27 11:11:08 WST 2004


On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:46:30PM +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> I have a rather unfortunate situation where I have run out of VTs.
> 
> Due to different reasons since booting my box the VT the Xserver is 
> running on has been pushed further and further along.
> It starts on VT 9 as I have some log monitors running on 7 & 8. Then 
> 
> Now for future reference how can I switch to a VT > 12?

Well running chvt NN will get you the relevant VT. On a Mac, I think
you could do Alt+Command+Fn to get VT n+12.

Alternately, you could try and start X with the 'vtXX' parameter to
force it to a certain vt, eg:

  X vt9

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>



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