> > Hey everyone. I am having a problem with using various consoles on my
> > Mandrake 7.1 box. As anyone who uses Linux may know, you can switch
> > consoles with ALT-(F1-F7), with console 7 being the Xserver console.
>
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 is processed by X Server (some on this list previously said
> this is processed by the kernel without X Server even knowing, but I don't
> think so). Anyway this has nothing to do with a window manager.
Ctrl-Alt-Fn has to be handled mostly by the kernel, because it works
on a machine where X is not even installed. When switching to a
console on which X is running, the kernel has to (somehow) inform
the X server that it's being reactivated, so that the X server can
arrange to get the screen redrawn; and the X server presumably has
to involve the window manager to install the correct colormap.
(It _is_ the window manager that manages colormaps, isn't it?)
Based on the OP's description, I suspect something in that chain
is failing. Since he said it worked OK with KDE, it seems that
this communication path works:
kernel --reactivate--> X server --restoreColormap--> KDE WM
--installColormap--> X server --installColormap--> display driver
however it fails when KDE WM is replaced with FVWM. It may not be
an FVWM bug, but FVWM is somehow a factor.
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Received on Wed Feb 07 2001 - 19:59:09 GMT