On Tue 15 Sep 2020 at 04:39:49 (+1000), David wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 04:27, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 00:10, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 19:48:37 (+1000), David wrote: > > > > > To explore and confirm and maybe learn something from > > > > smarter people, I report below some actual test results: > > [...] > > Sorry for this extra message, I forgot to state that all my tests > were done in the installer text mode. It never occurs to me > to use the GUI mode.
I took a look, and it's all pretty similar for tty[234] as shown with echo 'hello tty4 hello' > /dev/tty4 and likewise. (I recommend self-identifying your echos.) However, VC1 is used for Xorg's log, which you can scribble on with echo 'hello tty1 hello' > /dev/tty1 and note in passing that /dev/tty0 always writes to yourself on the ttys. The graphical installer displays itself on what I assume is VC5, as Xorg has /dev/tty5 open on fd=10, and Ctrl-Alt-F5 selects it from other VCs. The installer's own process seems to communicate through /dev/tty0 streams. When you open a shell in the installer itself (ie through the main menu), it uses /dev/pts/0 just as you found. You can write to this shell from any of the other VCs by typing eg echo 'hi pts/0 from tty2 hi' > /dev/pts/0 as one might expect. So I don't think there's much here for the OP, who might have just wanted someone to wax lyrical about the delights of ash. But the thread seems to be being hijacked by DE people, though where Felix's first post came from, I don't quite get. Cheers, David.