[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#557171: make chvt work within X windows

[Michael Schutte]

forcemerge 522453 557171
thanks

Hi!

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 07:57:28AM +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> The man page should mention why chvt can't be made to work within X
> windows. (Or better yet, please make it work.)

This is a fundamental limitation of all kbd tools which need a console
file descriptor to work; it is most obvious with tools like openvt,
fgconsole and chvt.  I’m merging this report with #522453.

Cheers,
-- 
Michael Schutte <michi at uiae.at>
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