Virtual screen switcher
Hello, There seems to exist a program 'screen' with which you can go to another virtual screen. Makes Alt-Fn obsolete, more or less. I can not locate it. Is it in potato ? Somewhere else ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991
Re: Virtual screen switcher
chvt THUS SPAKE Egbert Bouwman, on Oct 6: Hello, There seems to exist a program 'screen' with which you can go to another virtual screen. Makes Alt-Fn obsolete, more or less. I can not locate it. Is it in potato ? Somewhere else ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Virtual screen switcher
Potato has it and the name is screen. apt-get install screen stimpy:~$ dpkg -l screen Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii screen 3.9.5-9A screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal em On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:28:01PM +0200, Egbert Bouwman wrote: Hello, There seems to exist a program 'screen' with which you can go to another virtual screen. Makes Alt-Fn obsolete, more or less. I can not locate it. Is it in potato ? Somewhere else ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Virtual screen switcher
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 08:27:01PM +, Geordie Birch wrote: chvt It works. After sending my question I opened one of my eyes and discovered that there is a package 'screen' with the program 'screen'. It offers some more possibilities and complexities. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991
Re: Virtual screen switcher
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:28:01PM +0200, Egbert Bouwman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, There seems to exist a program 'screen' with which you can go to another virtual screen. Makes Alt-Fn obsolete, more or less. I can not locate it. Is it in potato ? Somewhere else ? egbert screen is a virtual terminal facility that does for a console session what VNC does for an X session. In a manner of speaking. I believe the utility you're thinking of is chvt. The distinction is that altF# works from the console when you're not logged in. chvt requires an open session to work, and it's quite possible you could get yourself somewhere (a virtual console without a shell, say), from which you couldn't return if you didn't have the keystroke alternative. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpOXg41Z30NK.pgp Description: PGP signature
