Take a look at /etc/inittab. You can add as many as you want. This will give you up to 12 I believe with the way the Speakup keymap works now I think. Another option you may want to look into for doing this is a program called screen. This will allow you to resume all your processes from remote locations with out having to leave your place in different applications. Thanks, Tom -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Kristoffer Gustafsson Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 10:37 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Orca Terminal vs. Speakup [Was Main advantages of SBL overSpeakup] Hello! A quick but maybe of topic question. How do you get more than 6 consoles? I'm running debian, and I only have that many, I think that's by default /Kristoffer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Brannon" <cmbrannon79@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 4:10 PM Subject: Re: Orca Terminal vs. Speakup [Was Main advantages of SBL over Speakup] > Janina Sajka wrote: > *SNIP* >> 4.) I tend to have up to 24 consoles open, each focused on a >> different task. Only one of these is for the gui, but the point is that >> I can quickly and unerringly switch among these. > > Do you have 24 function keys? I'm wondering how you manage to switch > so easily among all of those consoles. > > Is it difficult to remember the purpose of each console? > I've been known to confuse myself with just six or seven, and that > isn't really a big surprise, given Miller's Law. > > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup