From: Vladimir Dergachev <volodya@mindspring.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Design for setting video modes, ownership of sysfs attributes
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 22:32:43 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0409182229130.3641@node2.an-vo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910409181916446719b8@mail.gmail.com>
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.
best
Vladimir Dergachev
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-19 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-18 18:43 Jon Smirl
2004-09-18 19:58 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-18 22:12 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-18 22:37 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-18 23:33 ` Keith Packard
2004-09-19 0:54 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19 1:57 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2004-09-19 2:16 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19 2:32 ` Vladimir Dergachev [this message]
2004-09-19 10:11 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-19 9:55 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-19 4:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-19 16:12 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-20 0:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-20 1:06 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19 4:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-19 16:46 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19 17:19 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-19 20:40 ` Keith Packard
2004-09-20 13:02 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-19 20:44 ` Felix Kühling
2004-09-20 1:25 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-20 0:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-21 12:45 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-21 15:56 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-21 15:42 ` Alan Cox
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[not found] ` <2G6Et-6D7-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-19 14:18 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-09-19 15:00 ` P. Benie
2004-09-19 19:08 ` Pascal Schmidt
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