Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Sep 2004 22:32:43 -0400 (EDT) | From | Vladimir Dergachev <> | Subject | Re: Design for setting video modes, ownership of sysfs attributes |
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Jon Smirl wrote:
> You did that from an xterm, right? Which console device is the xterm running on?
Yes.
I thought /dev/pts/1 was a console - much like regular tty or a serial port.
> > X starts up a process that knows which device it is running and it can > remember that device since X stays running. > > Maybe the answer is that this is something for the VC layer since the > VC layer stays running and knows what device it was started on. An > escape sequence could query the device from the VC terminal emulator. > > Is there some way to figure this out from the environment?
Well, there is a DISPLAY variable which you likely knew about. Otherwise there does not seem to be anything else console specific.
Btw, completely unrelated, but I found that that I have WINDOW_MANAGER=metacity set. Not sure how I got it, but I am running KDE.
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