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Bug 50 - use ctrl-alt-fn for VT flipping in fbcon?
Summary: use ctrl-alt-fn for VT flipping in fbcon?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SDL
Classification: Unclassified
Component: video (show other bugs)
Version: HG 1.2
Hardware: x86 Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
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Reported: 2006-01-19 04:08 UTC by Ryan C. Gordon
Modified: 2006-03-22 01:44 UTC (History)
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Description Ryan C. Gordon 2006-01-19 04:08:06 UTC 
Originally mentioned in Bug #37 ...

"Using ctrl-alt-fn for flipping instead of alt-fn may help a few games that actually use that key combination. Would such a patch be accepted, or should something like that be configurable (environment variable?)"

--ryan.
Comment 1 bartoldeman 2006-01-19 07:13:34 UTC 
The convention in Linux is that alt-fn switches consoles in normal text mode programs (but SVGALIB programs also do this); the exceptions are X and DOSEMU (in raw keyboard mode), who use ctrl-alt-fn.

Perhaps the best approach is to use alt-fn by default but use ctrl-alt-fn if the keyboard is grabbed (SDL_GRAB_ON). Or maybe this works the other way around because of the SDL_GRAB_FULLSCREEN dynamics. I'll code up a patch when I have time.
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2006-01-27 11:23:16 UTC 
Setting Sam as "QA Contact" on all bugs (even resolved ones) so he'll definitely be in the loop to any further discussion here about SDL.

--ryan.
Comment 3 Sam Lantinga 2006-03-22 01:44:28 UTC 
I've changed CVS code to use Ctrl-Alt-FN to switch vt's