freebsd stable - May 2006 - Switching virtual consoles from within X

Is it possible to (from the command line) switch virtual consoles while 
within X?

Since I upgraded X on my laptop resume from suspend has been a little flaky. 
  But if I make sure I run 'zzz' from within a text virtual terminal the
laptop has (so far) always resumed correctly.

I could create ~/bin/zzz which checks to see if I'm in X and refuses to run,
but it would be even nicer if I could have it automatically switch to a 
virtual console for me, and then run /usr/sbin/zzz.

I'm aware of 'vidcontrol -s <n>', and if I run that from a
virtual terminal
it works.  However, if I run it within X it refuses to work, printing:

     vidcontrol: must be on a virtual console: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Is there a way around this restriction?

N

In the last episode (May 11), Nik Clayton said:
> Is it possible to (from the command line) switch virtual consoles while 
> within X?
> 
> Since I upgraded X on my laptop resume from suspend has been a little 
> flaky. But if I make sure I run 'zzz' from within a text virtual
terminal
>  the laptop has (so far) always resumed correctly.
> 
> I could create ~/bin/zzz which checks to see if I'm in X and refuses to
> run, but it would be even nicer if I could have it automatically switch to 
> a virtual console for me, and then run /usr/sbin/zzz.
> 
> I'm aware of 'vidcontrol -s <n>', and if I run that from
a virtual terminal
> it works.  However, if I run it within X it refuses to work, printing:
> 
>     vidcontrol: must be on a virtual console: Inappropriate ioctl for
device
> 
> Is there a way around this restriction?
Redirect stdin from a vty:

vidcontrol -s 1 < /dev/ttyv0

If you're not root you'll either need to specify a vty you are logged
in on, or wrap it in a sudo call.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com