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Re: [trinity-users] switch user could be better

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 18:14:42 +0200
Am Freitag, 20. Juli 2018 schrieb Thierry de Coulon:
> On Friday 20 July 2018 18.36:17 Dan Youngquist wrote:
> 
> > If there's a way to do that, it wouldn't be handled by the GUI.  The
> > virtual sessions, and the Ctrl-Alt-Fx keystrokes, are set up before the GUI
> > starts, maybe by the init system when the multiuser runlevel starts.  Maybe
> > you could make a script to determine which graphical sessions are active,
> > then switch to the next one, and assign the script to a hotkey.  But all
> > that is way above my pay grade.
> 
> I'm afraid it's way above mine too :)

Nothing special here. Modify your /etc/sudoers so that it contains an entry like this:

%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL, (root) NOPASSWD: /bin/chvt

and then use xbindkeys to bind e.g F8 to switch to console 8 with "sudo /bin/chvt 8", that's all.

Nik



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