Roland Mainz wrote:
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 � la libcmd (see
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2006/561/onepager/))
?
We will read the reference first.
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> ?
There have been such functions:
1. "Alt+->" / "Alt+n" can go through all virtual consoles in ascending
order;
2. "Alt+<-" / "Alt+p" can go through all consoles in reverse turn;
3. "Alt+uparrow" / "Alt+l" will go back last used console;
Because of resource, there is no much doc for the usage, but you can
use this function like at other systems. Of course, any questions
or comments are welcome!
- 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
we implemented necessary programming interfaces for above purpose in the
first step, some more tools will be available in next steps.
- What about adding an option ("on" by default) to use the first line of
the virtual console to hold the "window title" ?
This idea is quite interesting. But what will be displayed in that
position? I'm afraid there is no sense to display "console #" for end
users. But if we make the console display like X, why not use X instead
of text mode?
- Is there any plan for supporting an input method (e.g. to input
japanese/chinese/etc. (CC:'ing Ienup Sung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for
that...)) ?
This is out of scope for virtual console project. And I doubt whether
users will input such characters at command line.
Regards,
Lingbo
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