[techtalk] Re: virtual terminals (fwd)

[Ian Hall-Beyer]

Crossposting from ISP-Linux list, thought this might be relevant to a
recent discussion

-Ian

> > My highly-modified Redhat setup has 45 virtual consoles.  My /etc/inittab
> > has this to deploy it all:
> 
> Wow, impressive. I know about the right alt-key trick to access 13 through
> 24, but what about those beyond 24? what's the secret?

I set my own key mappings to select the additional consoles.  I have it
set up so Shift-Left-Alt does 25-36 and Shift-Right-Alt does 37-48 with
the 12 F keys.  I have 10-12 reserved for 3 instances of X Windows started
by XDM.

Here is my /etc/local.keymap (compressed, uuencoded):

begin 600 local.keymap.gz
M'XL(`!`"6S<"`X7624[#0!2$X;5SBAS!/7A:L.(@"(4P""N6$F^X/8H`J5[U
MJ\>Z?WV]Z4I\>%[WKNL^SU^G[>5\');NX?BX76[;>GY*A_OA:;OLUVV5S<$*
M8P^GV1>H82'!:1&";5C(<%J%8!L6"IP.0K`-"Q5.1R'8AH4!3B<AV(:%$4YG
M(=B&A0E.%R'8AH497TLO"(K(F/&&))XE1VR8*\3#Y.A>O5WE/LKO^3\3*:UC
M%I"J<CAK'=Q!&J1#6>O@&M(H'<I:!S>1)NE0UCJXC#1+A[+6P7VD13J4M0ZN
M)/?2H:QU\)'F)!W*6@<?:L[2H:QQS&BR?,^<M8ZY2+YGSGXV>GO_>-W][63[
MVQN7GF;_:L9`X]+5<$=YBC0J70W7E.=(H]+5<%-YB30J70V75?I(H]+5<%\E
M11J5KH8K*SG2J'0U?-NE1!J5KH8OO-1(H]+3S.Y*M`4N7<W<&&V!R[^]!_LK
M_&,?M[YH-ECF4.16B.9#<8E%:H5H/AS[6*16B+C'FF*16B'B)FN.16J%B+NL
M)1:I%2)NL]98I%:(N($ZQ"*U0L0=U#$6J?5%L],:;X9;(9I[X\UP^PUI#"FW
$_ at T`````
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