[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#522453: fgconsole doesn't work as user

Mauro Sacchetto mauro.sacchetto at alice.it
Sun Apr 5 12:03:00 UTC 2009


Il domenica 5 aprile 2009 10:41:46 Michael Schutte ha scritto:
> This is true.  It doesn’t only affect fgconsole, but also chvt, openvt
> and any other kbd utility which tries to get a console file descriptor.
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> As none of these is able to respond to a VT_GETSTATE ioctl, fgconsole
> and friends fail.  I’m afraid this situation won’t change.
Fgconsole fails in Slackware too, if I set
the automatic access in X.
So there is no real solution, if I don't use sudo?


Thanx!
Mauro



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