Daniel Dickman wrote:
Hello, until recently I've been a Linux user but have decided to get my feet wet with OpenBSD. I had a few basic questions that I wasn't able to solve after reading the FAQ and doing some web searches and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. (I'm running a freshly built 3.8-current on an amd64 machine). In any case, here are the things I'm trying to do:
Hi
1. I'd like to switch consoles with Alt-F<N> instead of Ctrl-Alt-F<N>. How can I do that? (The main reason is that I prefer to be able to switch consoles with one hand and using the Ctrl key is a bit awkward for me to do without using both hands.)
After using OpenBSD for a few years now, I try hard to minimize deviations from the base system. The possible drawbacks are minimal compared to the gained simplicity, e.g. concerning upgrades.
You will find (and most likely have already found) many differences from Linux. My suggestion is that you just get used to your new OpenBSD system and realize that it is a different OS. Tweaking will most likely, sooner or later, get you into trouble and you cannot (and should not) expect any help from the community with issues coming from tweaking a perfectly working system.
Of course, this is generally speaking, and there may exist some simple configuration setting (nb. run-time, not compile-time) that does what you want. Feel free to use it if so (but I don't recommend it anyway).
2. My mouse doesn't seem to work under X. I have a USB mouse and see the following message in dmesg: "uhub0: device problem, disabling port 1" and not sure if this is the indicating the problem. In any case, I've enclosed the full dmesg below and I'm happy to give out any more information that's needed.
Full dmesg. Super. Seems like a crappy mouse. Doesn't work in console either I suppose? (man wsmoused)
Thanks very much for any help, Daniel
/Alexander
