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From: Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console Terminal Gentoo
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:04:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060824200400.GA27870@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608242111.18484.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:11:18PM +0200, Penguin Lover Etaoin Shrdlu squawked:
> Not sure if terminals beyond 12 can be defined (and with which keyboard 
> shortcut they are supposed to be activated)

Yes. By default you have up to tty63. 

Some keyboard mappings allow you to do Alt+Left and Alt+Right for
cycling through the VCs. Another mapping that I used to use uses the
left and right windows key for that purpose. 

Or you can just issue chvt. See 'man chvt'

W

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-24 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-24 18:37 [gentoo-user] Console Terminal Gentoo Rafael Fernández López
2006-08-24 18:54 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2006-08-24 18:59 ` Willie Wong
2006-08-24 19:11 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2006-08-24 19:17   ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2006-08-24 20:04   ` Willie Wong [this message]
2006-08-24 21:31 ` Nick Rout

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