Re: Questions from a kernel hacker wannabe

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:41:10 +0100 (BST)


> chvt, but it's not ideal (and I have yet to find a way to bind a key
> combo in a terminal, so when I switch back to X, I still have to
> restore the bttv window).
>
> In a perfect world, X would tell it's clients that it was about to
> change the vt, but apparantly it doesn't.

I've asked the XFree people about sending unmap events on screen switches.
However with XFree 4.0 the tv is under the control of the X server extensions
so life should then be good

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