On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 20:13 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > When operating in terminal only mode (no X11, no graphical user interface) > is there a way of having several active terminal windows? > > I seem to remember that something like F4 is meant to permit cycling > through terminal windows but that doesn't seem to work. Unless perhaps I > have to explicitly create a new terminal window and F4 is cycling me > through all of one terminal windows. I'm on tty1 and for the time being > seem to be stuck there!
Sounds like you're using an honest-to-$DEITY VTx20 terminal (or PC emulation thereof). It's been a loooong time since I've done that. IIRC, F4 drops the VT into "command" mode, so that *if* your VT is plugged into a terminal server, then you could have 4 sessions, and round-robin between them. But, you probably aren't connected via a terminal server... screen(1) is probably what you want. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "A woman should dress to attract attention. To attract the most attention, a woman should be either nude or wearing something as expensive as getting her nude is going to be." P.J. O'Rourke, satirist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
