On 22/10/2015 12:09, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Marc. > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 09:21:07PM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: >> On Wednesday 21 October 2015 15:51:43 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >>> The two keyboard layouts I use in XFCE are both fine and dandy, but they >>> are incomplete. In particular, I want the key combination >>> <Ctrl><Alt><shift><F1> to take me to tty13 in the same way that >>> <Ctrl><Alt><F1> takes me to tty1. > >>> I've been searching for _hours_ trying to find out how to do this. I >>> cannot find the keyboard layouts anywhere under /usr/share, where one >>> might expect them. I can't find any relevant programs to manipulate >>> these data files with, even if I could find them. > >>> Would somebody help me please. Where are the X keyboard layouts stored, >>> and what program to I need to enhance them? > >>> TIA! > >> I was curious, so I looked a bit myself, and found this: > >> % ag ctrl-alt-f /usr/share/doc >> /usr/share/doc/kbd-1.15.5-r1/html/kbd.FAQ-7.html >> 21:<P>By default, console switching is done using Alt-Fn or Ctrl-Alt-Fn. >> 22:Under <CODE>X</CODE> (or recent versions of <CODE>dosemu</CODE>), only >> Ctrl-Alt-Fn works. > >> /usr/share/doc/kbd-1.15.5-r1/html/kbd.FAQ-8.html >> 54:Console_n Alt-Fn and Ctrl-Alt-Fn (1 <= n <= 12) >> 82:Ctrl-Alt-Fn Switch to VT n >> 115:Ctrl-Alt-Fn Switch to VT n (from version 0.50; earlier Alt-Fn) > >> /usr/share/doc/kbd-1.15.5-r1/html/kbd.FAQ-13.html >> 28:While it is running one can use Ctrl-Alt-Fn to switch to VTn. > >> /usr/share/doc/kbd-1.15.5-r1/html/kbd.FAQ-9.html >> 41:However, Ctrl-Alt-Fn will work and you can go to another VT. > >> /usr/share/doc/libsdl-1.2.15-r9/html/docs.html >> 631: The framebuffer console now uses CTRL-ALT-FN to switch virtual >> terminals, to avoid collisions with application key bindings. > >> (Online here: http://kbd-project.org/www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/) > > Yes, I've got that file. It only really deals with the console > keyboard, though. > >> (For those who haven't heard of it: ag is from sys-apps/the_silver_searcher.) > >> From a cursory look, I couldn't find anything specific, other than that >> apparently AltGr+Fn is supposed to give you console n+12 (though apparently >> not from within X), but it didn't work for me, and I'm not in the mood to >> find >> out why. Also, that FAQ looks... dated. However, maybe it will help lead >> you >> to a solution? > > I think I'm going to have to exercise my meagre search engine skills. > >> Also, while I'm sure you've got a good reason for doing this, I'm really >> curious: why not use screen or tmux instead? Especially if you're dealing >> with more than twelve terminals. > > I've never really considered screen (or tmux). Screen looks like a way > of "windowising" a tty, amongst other things, which isn't what I want. > In fact, reading the Wikipedia article, I'm not even clear whether > screen runs on a virtual terminal or within X.
Neither. screen runs in a shell, and the output goes to whatever the shell is using for that. Same as bash, ssh and so on all do - display device agnostic. > > No, what I really want is a way to go from X (XFCE for me) directly to > any virtual terminal. At the moment, if I want to go to, say, tty14, > I've first got to go to a lower numbered tty, and then to tty14. It's > one of these little annoyances which is scarcely worth bothering about, > but it _is_ an annoyance. > > I'll continue searching. > > Thanks for the post! > >> HTH >> -- >> Marc Joliet > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
