Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:50:49 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 linker@z.ml.org wrote:
> On 16 Aug 1998, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > How are you going to disguise EvStack?
>
> As descent multihead support perhaps? It would be nice to see good
> multihead (/multi console) support on Linux. (yes, I know metrox and
> accelx give you multi head, but what if I want two consoles, one with two
> heads?)..

There's already support for multiple consoles on multiple heads. You can run
different VCs on different frame buffer devices.

The problem that remains is that Linux has only one fg_console that gets the
keyboard focus. Yes indeed, `the' keyboard focus. No support for multiple
keyboards neither.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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