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tinypad
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Virtual Consoles on CLI - How to switch?
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July 11, 2009, 01:45:44 PM »
Hi guys, With my old distro I could change the virtual consoles with ALT + 1,2,3.... How do I do this with TCL? I boot with the text flag.
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^thehatsrule^
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Re: Virtual Consoles on CLI - How to switch?
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July 11, 2009, 02:17:20 PM »
I thought that the standard key combo for moving directly was ctrl+alt+F# (ie F1)
(Do you need to use the different key combo?)
Also, note that by default TC does not invoke extra vterms (see inittab)
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samedirection
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Re: Virtual Consoles on CLI - How to switch?
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July 11, 2009, 03:11:26 PM »
The default is ALT + F1/F2/F3..., but you have to press CTRL+ALT to get out of X and back to a terminal.
But as ^hats says, you'll first have to tell TC to start some virtual terminals.
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tinypad
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Re: Virtual Consoles on CLI - How to switch?
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July 12, 2009, 01:15:49 AM »
You are right: it's
ALT+Fn
. I just need to figure out how to make inittab persistant, which I suppose does not fit quite well with the concept of TCL.
Thanks for the quick response, though.
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roberts
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Re: Virtual Consoles on CLI - How to switch?
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July 12, 2009, 01:28:25 AM »
This has been discussed and documented here:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=289.0
It would effect a higher memory requirement to start multiple virtual consoles.
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