LingBo Tang wrote: > > This mail has been posted in virtual console discussion alias. The > broadcasting is for those who may be interested in this feature on solaris. > > The new release for "Virtual Console" is available now, you can download > and try for fun: > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/vconsole/Downloads/ > > There is a brief changes list for your reference: > > 1. Add many secure feature, like secure switch via vtdaemon, which > require password during switching. Follow SMF policy for vtdaemon and > console-login service etc. > > 2. Virtual terminal names are changed as "/dev/vt/#", and the 1st > virtual terminal uses "/dev/console", which can be accessed via > "Alt-F1". The second one uses "/dev/vt/2" accordingly.
One small request: Could you please rename /dev/vt/ to something longer, e.g. /dev/vtconsole/ (the idea is to make the name more descriptive and avoid possible "fun" with name collisions à la libcmd (see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2006/561/onepager/)) ? > 3. You can keep pressing "Alt" key during switching between several > virtual consoles. Random ideas/thoughs: - What about adding a capabilty to cycle through virtual terminals, e.g. using the <+>/<-> keys and/or <tab>/<shift><tab> ? - A small tool would be nice to switch between virtual consoles from scripts, add/remove consoles, enumerate consoles, dump current console view to a file/stdout and set/get attributes, e.g. window title - What about adding an option ("on" by default) to use the first line of the virtual console to hold the "window title" ? - Is there any plan for supporting an input method (e.g. to input japanese/chinese/etc. (CC:'ing Ienup Sung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for that...)) ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
