On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:46:14PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > On ב', 2005-10-31 at 10:32 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > The X case may be different (I don't know). X grabs the alt-Fx > > combination from the kernel, and gives it ctrl-alt-Fx instead. I'm not > > sure whether that's a user space thing or a kernel thing. > > Alt-Fx switching at the textual console is managed by the kernel but > user-configurable as part of the console keyboard mapping. Run > 'dumpkeys' and look for the Console_1, Console_2 etc. mappings. > > Alt-Ctrl-Fx switch is entirely userspace. By merit of running as root, X > can switch the console into Raw Keyboard Mode, which means it intercepts > scancodes directly and avoids Linux keyboard keycodes and mapping. The > magic that makes Alt-Ctrl-Fx work is the XKB mapping into > XF86_Switch_VT_1 psuedo-keysyms -- > see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/srvr_ctrl. > > To find out how X does what it does programatically, try strace'ing > chvt.
Or read the manpage console_ioctl(4). -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
