[vconsole-discuss] Re: Re: What is the current status of virtual

2007-04-05 Thread Nigel Smith
Lingbo, I'm glad to hear that in the new (next?) version of the code, it will not be required to release the 'Alt', before pressing another function key, to select the next virtual console. When I'm using Linux in text mode, I like to be able to hold the 'Alt' key down with a finger on my left

[vconsole-discuss] Re: Re: What is the current status of virtual

2007-04-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On 05/04/07, LingBo Tang Lingbo.Tang at sun.com wrote: Another nice feature I've seen on Linux, is the ability to configure it to display syslog output on one of the virtual consoles. Will it be possible to do something like this with Solaris? If you can describe more details in this

[vconsole-discuss] Re: Re: What is the current status of virtual

2007-04-05 Thread David Bustos
Quoth LingBo Tang on Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:26:43AM +0800: The usage of Alt-h will be removed in next version because the 1st virtual console stand for /dev/console now. You can use Alt-F1 for system console. Alt-h is a sequence in old solaris (maybe 2.5 or 2.6), and we are considering the