From: jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump) Subject: Re: Announcing the release of XFree86 1.2 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 15:02:26 GMT
In article <1993Feb17.210323.20564@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>In article <dwood.729973810@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dwood@cory.Berkeley.EDU (DANIEL N WOOD) writes:
>>rene.cougnenc@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Rene Cougnenc) writes:
>>
>>> 2) What's new in XFree86 1.2?
>>> 3) XFree86 features
>>
>>A few weeks ago when people first began mentioning XFree 1.2 on c.o.l
>>they mentioned that it would be possible to put X on a virtual console,
>>and switch between it and other VCs. Now that XFree is here, the truth
>>can be told: Was this just a rumor?
>
>No, it's there. But XFree-1.2 uses ctrl+alt+Fx to switch out of the
>console, not just alt+Fx. Start up X11, play around, go back to your
>original session with "ctrl-alt-F1", play around in text mode (now you
>can switch consoles with just "alt-Fx"), start up another X server,
>switch between servers etc.. It's all there (but you need lots of
>memory if you want to run several X servers at the same time without
>unreasonable swapping).
Would it be possible to have ctrl-alt-Fx switch between virtual consoles
exclusively, and free up the alt-Fx keys? It seems redundant to have
separate key sequences to do basically the same thing, plus I would like
to have the alt-Fx keys for applications.
> Linus
john
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