On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Samuel Thibault wrote: > It's been a while since I proposed this:
> Le mar 05 aoû 2003 23:09:13 GMT, Samuel Thibault a tapoté 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 With a reasonably recent installation of the kbd package on Linux, it'd be simpler to ... export CONTROLVT=`fgconsole` Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel