swapping vts remotely
You could try chvt followed by the number of the console you want --
you have to be root to do this, however.
on Tuesday 02/15/2005 Blake Swadling(bswadling@newton.com.au) wrote
> hi folks
>
> Consider the following scenario ...
>
> 2 X11 sessions running on a machine in the other room. One of the X
> sessions is killed remotely (killall gnome-session). the display in the
> other room drops to the console.
>
> Is there any way to switch from the console to the other X session over
> an ssh connection without physically walking in there and hitting
> ctrl-alt-f7
>
> Cheers
> Blake
>
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> Blake Swadling
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> hi folks<BR>
> <BR>
> Consider the following scenario ...<BR>
> <BR>
> 2 X11 sessions running on a machine in the other room. One of the X sessions is killed remotely (killall gnome-session). the display in the other room drops to the console.<BR>
> <BR>
> Is there any way to switch from the console to the other X session over an ssh connection without physically walking in there and hitting ctrl-alt-f7<BR>
> <BR>
> Cheers<BR>
> Blake<BR>
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> Fax: +61 2 6247 3533
> Mobile: +61 407 026277
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