Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3419 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:12:43 -0500
> "Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > First session is by default virtual terminal 7, second is vt8 etc.
> > From any window manager Ctrl-Alt-F7 is first (default) session, Ctrl-Alt-F8 
> > would be second, etc. 
> > The Ctrl-Alt-Fn combination is intercepted by X server, so it works in any 
> > window manager.
> >     
> This is true, but the number of virtual terminals is controlled
> by /etc/inittab. Most distros, including SuSE use 1-6 as VTs, and 7 as
> the first session, but some, such as KNoppix use fewer virtual
> terminals. In any case, both the ability to have multiple desktop
> sessions as well as virtual terminals is an excellent feature. It also
> emphasizes that the GUI runs on tops of the OS which makes Linux (and
> BSD, and MacOS, and commercial Unix) extremely powerful. 
>   
I have noticed that Ctrl-Alt-F10 is used for some sort of status 
display.  Is it possible to move that elsewhere, so that key can be used 
for another desktop?

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