Switching virtual terminals

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jun 7 20:23:39 UTC 2008


> It would be interesting to see if the Alt key is actually being detected
> in console mode. The keyboard tables are loaded at boot time but they
> can change when X starts up, so it's possible that Alt in console mode
> is simply not being read. Can't think of an easy test off the top of my
> head but I'm sure somebody out there can :-)
> 
> /usr/share/doc/kbd-1.12/kbd.FAQ.html (part of kbd.rpm) would probably be
> the place to start.
> 
> poc
> 
To test lat key run:
echo < \<return>
You will get a > at the begining of the next line asn see if ':' and
alt-: give you a different result. There is nothing magic about ':' and
key might do.
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