Anyone know what is happening in Debian Lenny?

[luke]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Ralph W. Reid wrote:

> Have you tried using the right alt key with your function keys to see
> if these key combinations get you to tty13-tty25?  On my Slackware
> system, left_alt+functionkey<n> lets me jump to virtual terminal <n>
> and right_alt+functionkey<n> lets me jump to virtual terminal <n>+12
> to get me to terminals 13-24.

That is the altgar combination which I posted about finding later in the 
day.
Useful indeed.

> deallocvt for more terminal management.  The screen program can also
> be useful at times--it sets up several 'screens' on a single virtual
> terminal among other things.  See the man page for screen.  I believe

Yes, screen is marvelous.  Even better than its multiple sessions, is the 
attach detach feature set.

Luke