Hi, It's been a while since I proposed this:
Le mar 05 ao� 2003 23:09:13 GMT, Samuel Thibault a tapot� sur son clavier : > We are currently developping X access to braille devices thanks to > gnopernicus connected to the standard text console reader brltty, > through BrlAPI. But for this to work (avoid conflicts with text console > reading), we need to know on which VT the X server is running. > > Currently, there is no way to get this information from the server: X11 > protocol doesn't have any native request for this. Parsing the logfile > like this: > > CONTROLVT="$(grep "using VT number" "/var/log/XFree86.$(echo "$DISPLAY" | sed -e > "s/^.*::*\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/").log" | sed -e "s/^.*using VT number \([0-9]*\).*$/\1/")" > export CONTROLVT > > in the .xinitrc/.xsession is quite reliable, but a bit hairy... Dave > proposed that it be recorded as a property, which is quite fine to my > mind. Could this be done before 4.3.0 ? > > Just a reminder: the VT number is got from the os dependant part, for > instance lnx_init.c:90, which stores it in xf86Info.vtno. It is printed > in the log file (which is parsed in the ugly line above), and then never > used again. I've just checked in the latest cvs revision with grep > xf86InfoRec[^.] (and vtno, of course), only references to the > Documentation or the definition itself could be found, so > xf86InfoRec.vtno is really not given to anybody. And there has not been a single response. I can't think it be difficult to implement for anybody involved in xfree development. May anybody care ? Thanks, Samuel Thibault _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
