"Shawn K. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 23:28 -0600, Chris Kuethe wrote:
> > On 7/11/05, Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Which leads me to ask... why is OpenBSD the only odd one out that
> > > requires Ctrl+Alt+F{1,2,3,4,5} when switching between text consoles? Is
> > > there really a good reason for leaving it the way it is?
> >
> > Because some X11 apps use ALT+Fx.
>
> GNU/Linux and FreeBSD still require Ctrl-Alt-Fx to switch back to a text
> console from X11. That's no reason to require Ctrl-Alt-Fx when switching
> between text consoles when X11 isn't even involved.
Yes it is a good reason. The same keyboard combination works
regardless of what state your console happens to be in. What next?
Shift-Alt-Fx when you have colors on your console,
Meta-Super-Hyper-F(x^2) when you changed the reesolution and
triple-click on the mouse + wave with a dead chicken if you're in ddb?
Geez. I wanted to call you lazy for not wanting to press another key,
but then I realized that actually I'm lazy because I don't want to
remember which magic wand to wave in what situation. I prefer my magic
to be consistent.
//art
