On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:28:01PM +0200, Egbert Bouwman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > There seems to exist a program 'screen' with which you can > go to another virtual screen. Makes <Alt-Fn> obsolete, more or less. > I can not locate it. Is it in potato ? Somewhere else ? > egbert
"screen" is a virtual terminal facility that does for a console session what VNC does for an X session. In a manner of speaking. I believe the utility you're thinking of is chvt. The distinction is that <alt><F#> works from the console when you're not logged in. chvt requires an open session to work, and it's quite possible you could get yourself somewhere (a virtual console without a shell, say), from which you couldn't return if you didn't have the keystroke alternative. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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