On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Andy Sparrow wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Christopher W. Allermann wrote:
> >
> > > I'm stuck with a little bit of a problem here and have been unable
> to find a
> > > suitable solution.
> >
> > You might have to hack the server to do this. There are already
> > config file options to prevent Ctrl-Alt-backspace and Ctrl-Alt-+/-,
> > but there isn't one for Ctrl-Alt-F#. Maybe there was a reason for
> > that, I don't remember. This isn't the first time somebody wanted
> > to do this.
>
> Actually, someone asked me about this recently, and I was surprised to
> discover that it didn't exist too. It seems to me that it should be a
> standard option, as there's (at least) two cases where it would be both
> valid
> and useful:
>
> i) Your hardware won't switch cleanly back to text mode from X[1]
>
> ii) You're setting up a kiosk-mode machine
>
> As you say, this also isn't the first time that somebody wanted this, so
>
> there's obviously a grass-roots requirement for it :)
>
> I'm currently working on a patch for this, and I'd appreciate some
> advice; I
> believe that such an option (lets call it 'DontSwitch') should disable
> VT
> switching for all OSes that support that functionality (including the
> ones
> that use the VTSysreq method of doing it).
[...]
> Any comments?
>
"DontSwitch" is an ambiguous name.
Mark.
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