Questions tagged [virtual-consoles]
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Rebinding/disabling CTRL+ALT+F# Virtual Terminal/Console Switching
I have an application that binds CTRL+ALT+F7, but my linux machine seems to catch the keystroke.
Is there a way to rebind/disable this key? A recompile of the kernel is an acceptable answer.
The distributions in question are Fedora 16 and Ubuntu…
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How to copy/paste between a console and an X session?
What's the fastest way to copy/paste between a non-graphical console () and an X session ?
Right now :
I select the text with the mouse on the console (I've installed gpm)
Then I paste the text inside a temporary file
And finally I…
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Linux console Shift + PgUp not working anymore
I run Fedora 24 and sometimes use a virtual console.(I use Ctrl+Alt+F3 to switch to the virtual console, so it's not a terminal in X).In the past I could use Shift+PgUp or Shift+PgDown to scroll but today it stopped.
In the manpages and in vim the…
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Keep bash input on top line of screen
I'd like to keep the bash command prompt input at the top of the screen so that outputs from older commands are pushed downwards rather than up.
How can I achieve this?
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How to open different virtual consoles on different monitors?
I use a 2-display set-up (a laptop with a secondary 1280x1024 SXGA monitor attached to it) and whenever I switch to a virtual console (e.g. by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2) the secondary monitor switches to 1024x768 mode or something like that and just…
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Dual monitor support without X.org server possible?
On a dual monitor setup, can you have both monitors displaying a shell without entering X (or any other graphical display server)?
And if it is not possible, why?
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Multiple virsh/kvm guest consoles without graphics
I have a serial console working for a centos7 guest without graphics, which I access with virsh console vm. The guest has the appropriate console=ttyS0,115200n8 kernel command line parameter for it.
Is it possible to configure additional consoles,…
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Remove shortcuts to switch virtual terminals on Linux
When you are running Raspbian without graphics (GNU bash), only in bash mode, if you press ALT+F2, ALT+F3... you switch from current tty to another.
How to make that if you press these shortcuts nothing happens? Not even switching, nothing.
Why do I…
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Is a virtual console running as a process and implemented based on pseudoterminal?
Linux has 7 virtual consoles, which correspond to 7 device files /dev/tty[n].
Is a virtual console running as a process, just like a terminal emulator? (I am not sure. It seems a virtual console is part of the kernel, and if that is correct, it…
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Single-user mode output to console (tty1) AND serial (ttyS0)
I am using grub2 on CentOS 7. I would like to know if it's possible to display output to both serial (ttyS0) and console (tty1) when I attempt to boot into single user mode. The ultimate goal is to have a permanent "single user" grub menu item…
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How To Switch to Virtual Terminal Running X11 as Subprocess of Login Shell?
I remember switching between TTYs on Ubuntu Linux and being able to switch back and forth between an active X session (Unity/KDE/XFCE) and a terminal on another numbered TTY thing / virtual console. I expected the same thing to work in Slackware…
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How to enable underlines and other formattings on a color tty?
I'm on Arch Linux (a 32 bits alternative version), and recently I've discovered that the blue lines I used to see in Vim with :set cursorline were supposed to be underlined, and not blue.
That got me searching all around for a solution.
I'm using no…
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X: alt/ctrl/f1 doesn't work any more after turning the display off and on again with xrandr
(After editing significant new infos into the question)
After turning a display off from command line (xrandr --output ... --off), and then turning it back (xrandr --output ... --auto), my X desktop loses the capability to switch to a character…
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Unloading KMS driver / Replacing NVIDIA Linux drivers without rebooting
In the past you could trivially replace NVIDIA proprietary drivers on the fly after switching to the text console, killing X.org and unloading (rmmod) the appropriate NVIDIA modules, and installing new drivers.
However nowadays NVIDIA recommends to…
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Archlinux boots with German ISO keyboard layout even though US ANSI is defined
I recently switched from DE-ISO to US-ANSI layout and have an issue across my Archlinux machines that I cannot resolve which is a bit painful as the encryption key expects German layout but my keyboard is US.
Here is what I have tried so…
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