[SDL] How to disable ctrl-alt-Fn?

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Jan 21 02:34:09 PST 2008


On Monday 21 January 2008, list at akfoerster.de wrote:
> Am Monday, dem 21. Jan 2008 schrieb Ctirad Fertr:
> > I have developed an embedded application which uses SDL and
> > linux/framebuffer. I'd like to disable ctrl-alt-Fn console switching,
> > because actually there are no consoles at all in the underlying system.
> > Is it possible?
>
> If there is nothing running on other ttys, it should be not possible to
> switch to them. So, check out your /etc/inittab.

inittab only controls whether something runs by default on any given virtual 
terminal.  it does not control whether the virtual terminal exists at all 
(and thus whether you can switch to it).  their existence is solely 
controlled by the kernel.
-mike
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