On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 05:54:41PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
There is a little program called switchvt... I hardly remember, but I think
it was just a single C file.
That's about all I remember, too. (Although I was trying runvt, loadvt,
launchvt.) Anyone have ideas on where it's
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 05:54:41PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
There is a little program called switchvt... I hardly remember, but I
think
it was just a single C file.
That's about all I remember, too. (Although I was trying runvt,
Brandon Mitchell wrote:
It works as root. But I need a bit more than chvt, and I know I've seen a
program/script that does it about a year or more ago. The more that I
need is the ability to do this as a user, run a specified program, and
switch back to X when the program is done. I was
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
Open will do it. Use open -s -w program, it will switch to a VT, run the
program, wait for it to finish, and switch back.
That's exactly what I was looking for!
Thanks Joey,
Brandon
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I want to start qwcl (quake world) from xqf (an X game finder). I
remember something that would change the current vt (via chvt maybe) and
then run your non-X program, followed by a change back to X. Does anyone
know of such a program/script?
Thanks,
Brandon
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Hi Brandon,
I want to start qwcl (quake world) from xqf (an X game finder). I
remember something that would change the current vt (via chvt maybe) and
then run your non-X program, followed by a change back to X. Does anyone
know of such a program/script?
There is a little program called
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Tino Schwarze wrote:
I want to start qwcl (quake world) from xqf (an X game finder). I
remember something that would change the current vt (via chvt maybe) and
then run your non-X program, followed by a change back to X. Does anyone
know of such a program/script?
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