(SOLVED): How to determine the VT of a running X session?

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Jan C. Nordholz wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:04:49PM -0600, David Berg wrote:
>  
>
> > 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".
> >    
> Apparently VT_GETSTATE doesn't work when you're under X (returns EINVAL)...
> but there's an alternate solution: Marc, what about the "vtXX" commandline option
> to the X server? See man XFree86 or Xorg...
>
>  
Thank you!  Both of these methods work just fine.  I never knew about 
the vtxx option for the xserver (nor about the -k option for man).  
Since I already have aliases for startx to allow me to start the two X 
sessions, all I had to do was to add vt07 to one of them and vt08 to the 
other.  Now I know that Ctl-Alt-F7 will ALWAYS get to my session and my 
wife can ALWAYS get to hers with Ctl-Alt-F8.  Since I have an fvwm 
button bar at the bottom of the screen for each of us, I have also added 
a button that will switch to the other session using chvt.  Those were 
exactly the commands that I needed.

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Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com