Virtual consoles in Arch

[acollins at icsmail.net]

Hello Chuck!  Well, I use Debian, instead of arch, but if you look in
/etc/inittab, you should find several lines like this.

6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
if you duplicate this line, and then change the sixes to sevens, and
then do an init 2, the system should allocate another console.  If you
add more lines, with eights, nines, etc. you can have up to 64 virtual
consoles pre-allocated at system startup.  You can also look at your
distro for a package called openvt, which will let you allocate more
consoles on the fly.  Hope this helps.

Gene


>Hi Kyle,
>
>> Systemd allocates virtual consoles as needed, so simply switching to one wil
l
>> automatically create it. There should no longer be any need to statically
>> allocate more, as you start now with only one. Hope this helps.
>
>That only seems to work for the first six colnsoles for me, there seems to
>be no way to switch to console 7, or 8, etc. I normally move from one
>console to another with alt+right-arrow, or alt+left-arrow,  and when I am
>in console 6 and press alt+right-arrow, I am back in console 1. Likewise,
>alt+F7 doesn't do it for me either.
>
>Chuck
>
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