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Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap



On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:05:48PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote:
> Since chvt works, is there any way to make chvt a command
> that is accessible by a normal user such as myself so that I
> could bind it to a key with xbindkeys (for those of you just
> tuning in, I can't seem to switch to a VT from X with the
> standard Control-Alt-<Fx> keybindings), but can using chvt
> as root or with sudo. It doesn't seem to be a file
> permissions problem, as I can *invoke* chvt as a normal user
> but get the error "VT_ACTIVATE: Operation not permitted"
> when I do so.

Amy, I was helping you with this and then got distracted. Did you
resolve this issue at all? 

A

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