use chvt to switch to text virtual console, there is no need to
generate keystrokes (in this case)
also, why is xterm not good enough?
erik
Neil Zanella wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Michael Han wrote:
>
> > Correction, ALT/META-F1 works in the standard linux console. XFree86
> > supports the CTRL-ALT-F1 key binding. You'd need to hack XFree86 to
> > get additional tty-switching capability, since XFree86 only supports
> > turning the existing CTRL-ALT-Fn bindings on and off. Neil might want
> > to look at the xfree86 mailing lists.
>
> In MS-Windows you can go to real DOS mode by selecting and entry from the
> task bar and clicking a button. Wouldn't it be nice if we could switch
> to the Linux console in a similar fashion, perhaps with FvwmTaskBar and
> FvwmForm + whatever needs to be done to generate synthetic keystrokes.
> There seems to be a problem with getting window managers to generate
> synthetic keystrokes and synthetic mouse clicks. It would be nice to
> know how this could be done.
>
> Regards,
>
> Neil
>
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