From: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson) Subject: Re: XWindows and virtual consoles Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:20:11 GMT
In article <Lu8qwB1w165w@dat1hb.north.de> lion@dat1hb.north.de (Daniel Tietze) writes:
1) After starting X, I cannot switch to the other virtual consoles any more.
ALT-F1 through ALT-F4 simply dump strange characters in the shell window.
Coming to think of it, I have only tried this with the focus on the shell
window, not with focus on the desktop. Could this be the problem? My SCO
system at work switches to and fro quit well, even from and to X (or, rather,
Motif) sessions. Any suggestions?
Yeah: wait. The current version of Xfree86 does not yet take
advantage of the brand-new kernel features for doing this.
1.a) Is MOTIF free? Is there any chance for a Motif port to Linux? If
I'm not mistaken, Motif is a product of the FSF, the first F meaning "free".
No, you are mistaken. It is from the OSF, the O meaning Open, not
free. Motif is *DEFINITELY* not free. Check the prices on the Motif
libs sometime when you want sticker shock...
Does anyone see a possibility of developing the software at home and then
simply taking a tar archive to work now and then and cimpiling it there? Of
course, this would depend on a positive answer to item 1.a.
Well, you could buy the motif source from OSF, and then I imagine it
might work. ;-)
michaelkjohnson