Re: [SLUG] Can't switch out of X

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Aug 17 2005 - 22:49:39 EDT

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Paul M Foster wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 08:31:16PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > > This is such an obscure problem, and I can't figure out how to google
> > > it. Let's take another tack.
> > >
> > > How would I go about setting, say, "Alt-G" to go to virtual console
> > > number 3?
> >
> > Bind "chvt 3" to alt-G. In fvwm2 it would be something like
> >
> > # any context --v v-- alt
> > Key G A A exec chvt 3
>
> From my googling, chvt works at the console, but not from X down to a
> console.

I get this from an rxvt:

[eben@pc eben]$ chvt 1
chvt: VT_ACTIVATE: Operation not permitted

but this in /usr/share/fvwm/fvwm2rc works:

key F1 A M exec chvt 1
key F2 A M exec chvt 2
etc.

And I was wrong about the second "A" -- fvwm2 (XFree86?) calls "alt" "meta". 

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