On Monday 01 May 2006 01:52, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 23:22 +0200, Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 30 April 2006 21:44, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 15:36 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
That's where I am messed up, I always knew of them as being called virtual consoles that you access using ctrl-alt-Fn. A desktop can contain many program windows whereas a console can only contain text. And VT's are graphical login sessions.
KDE seems to call them all vt's (from my Switch User menu): [x]leen: kde (:0, vt7) root: TTY login (vt2)
But lo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_console
<q>virtual console (VC, sometimes virtual terminal, VT)</q>
That's what happens when newer people come on board and change the meaning of things.
Well, I always found it rather confusing. So if you know a better pointer, please post it here. :)
Same thing happened with "su" which means SwitchUser (which is what it does),
Or substitute user (according to man su).
people now refer to it as SuperUser because most people use it to temporarily which to root.
I didn't know that. Perhaps they do not know what a man page is, let alone how to read it. ;) Cheers, Leen