On 2/15/06, Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> wrote: > Is there any way to determine the virtual terminal that an X session is > running on? $ man -k vt ... fgconsole (1) - print the number of the active VT. ... It seems to need super user privileges though. I can see why super user privileges should be necessary for chvt but not fgconsole. Does anyone know why or should it be reported as a "bug". --Dave