[ale] How do I disable some VT

[pwd at mdtsoft.com]

Almost, this did work for outside of X but not inside, 
X still stops and it is inside X that I need to shut down 
the console. 


On 10 Sep, Joe Steele wrote:
>>
>> Edit/remove entry(ies) for tty's from your /etc/inittab.
>>
> 
> I don't think this solution will have the intended effect.  This only 
> prevents you from logging in on a VC;  it doesn't prevent you from 
> switching to it with CTL-ALT-Fx.
> 
> Instead, I think there are a couple things you may need to do, 
> depending on needs:
> 
> 1) Use dumpkeys to create a file with your existing console keymap, 
> then edit it, deleting lines that contain "Console_xx", similar to 
> the following for console 7:
> 
>         alt     keycode  65 = Console_7       
>         control alt     keycode  65 = Console_7 
> 
> When done, load the new keymap file with loadkeys (this should 
> probably be done in some script that runs on boot-up).  This disables 
> the default CTL-ALT-Fx behavior when typed at a standard virtual 
> console (outside of X).  (If you are not having problems with the 
> ALT-Fx sequence, the you should probably leave the first line alone, 
> and only delete the second line.)
> 
> 2)  Modify your XF86Config file by adding "VTSysReq" to the Keyboard 
> section.  This should prevent X from catching the standard CTL-ALT-Fx 
> keys.  Instead, you would now type ALT-SysRq Fx to switch to another 
> VC.
> 
> You can, of course, elect to perform only one of these two steps, 
> depending on whether you need to disable the key sequence outside or 
> inside of X.
> 
> --Joe
> 
> 
>>On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 pwd at mdtsoft.com wrote:
>>> Subject: [ale] How do I disable some VT
>>>
>>> Something has come up that I have not run into before. I need to turn off
>>> the CTL-ALT-Fxx for xx > say 6 (F12 is the important one) I only use virtual
>>> consoles ones every blue moon and I need to run an application (R Admin under
>>> a VMware NT system) that need (or at least it would be best) to use CLT-ALT-F12
>>> as I don't even have a getty on that "port" it would be nice to turn this off
>>> but I don't know how.
>>>
> 
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