On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 02:23:42PM -0400, luke wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Georgina Joyce wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 00:55 +0200, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > > > How many consoles can you have at the same time? > > > > I have 11 text terminals and 4 virtual desktops from console 7 within > > Gnome at my disposal. > > > > This keyboard only has 12 function keys. > > The function keys do not limit your virtual consoles: I have only 12 > function keys, but a year or so ago I set my inittab to give me 24 virtual > consoles. The second set of 12 are only accessible via the alt-leftarrow > , alt-rightarrow sequences, from the first and twelfth virtual consoles > respectively. > > Afaik, you can have up to 256, although how exactly one would manage all > of those is beyond me. > > Luke Have you tried using the right alt key with your function keys to see if these key combinations get you to tty13-tty25? On my Slackware system, left_alt+functionkey<n> lets me jump to virtual terminal <n> and right_alt+functionkey<n> lets me jump to virtual terminal <n>+12 to get me to terminals 13-24. Look up the man pages for chvt and deallocvt for more terminal management. The screen program can also be useful at times--it sets up several 'screens' on a single virtual terminal among other things. See the man page for screen. I believe key combinations can be mapped to jump directly to even more terminals if 24 are not enough. I currently have 25 virtual terminals set up in my inittab. HTH, and have a great day. -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light... COSEC (x) / SEC (x) = (COTAN (x) / TAN (x)) ^ 2
