VP/ix

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <709 at picuxa.UUCP> tgr at picuxa.UUCP (Dr. Emilio Lizardo) writes:
> You can add /etc/getty processes for the virtual terminals,
>but using <alt><sysreq>F8 will not return you to the console session; perhaps
>a different keystroke sequence works

It is <alt><sysreq><h> to go to the console but I still haven't found
any real documentation for the vt devices.  What I want to do is automatically
start several jobs on the vt's when I log in at the console (i.e. I don't
want to log in to each one).  Starting a background shell with simple
redirection almost works but it doesn't connect the process group to the vt
(so no interrupt signal).  Using setpgrp disconnects the session from the
console but it is still not connected to vt.  Also, now that I have run
vtlmgr the <alt><M><U> from a dos session will not give me a new unix session
even though I have logged out killing the previously started vtlmgr (this still
works for root, though).

A window manager that would allow you to name the sessions would be nice, or
perhaps GNU emacs could be taught how to use them.

Les Mikesell