[oclug] Starting an X Windows term

[Vic Gedris]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Joe Burpee wrote:

> Yeah I was a bit perturbed about that Vic, but I guess it's what we'd
> want default X server behaviour to be.  I got the impression from
> Patrick's message that he didn't care about that aspect, as long as both
> VTs fired up at login.
>
> Anyway you can also fix that problem by doing
>
> $ switchto 1
>
> This amounts to Ctrl-Alt-F1, but can be put into a script of course ...
> and run under X ... if you really want to ...  ;-)

Damn, now you have me learning a third new command today.  ;-)

Switchto seems o work when I'm already in a text console.  I can can
switch to other text consoles, or the X console (switchto 7), but when I
try to get to another console from X I get:

[vgedris at vgedris vgedris]$ switchto 1
switcho: Failed to select VT 1 (Operation not permitted)

...actually, that works as root.

Interesting stuff.

-Vic

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