6386 V.3.2 virtual terminal switch remapping?

Jim Rosenberg jr at oglvee.UUCP
Thu Jun 15 09:19:07 AEST 1989


I have a feeling this question has come up before, so pardon if this is one of
those constantly asked things.  I'm not too crazy about having the virtual
terminal switch require a lead-in.  I've used virtual terminals on 3 other
operating systems and none of them required this.  In reading the man page for
keyboard(7) it's not clear to me whether this can be reprogrammed or not.  It
seems clear that the lead-in can be reprogrammed from ALT-Sysreq if you like,
and that following that lead-in you can map whatever you'd like to select a
given virtual terminal.  But what I'd like is to be able to have, say,
CTRL-ALT-1 give me vt00, CTRL-ALT-2 give me vt01, etc -- with *no* lead-in.
(We use QNX around here a lot, which uses those for switching virtual
terminals, so it sure would simplify things to have the same keystrokes!!!)  If
anybody knows how to do this I'd appreciate a tip.
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Jim Rosenberg                        pitt
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