Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Any help would be much appreciated.
<shift>-PgUp and <shift>-PgDn I believe.
This will let you scroll back, with a couple of limits. One is that
when you switch from one VT to another, you normally lose the
scroll-back buffer for the first VT. I have not checked in a while,
but the last time I tried it, shifting between a VT running X and
one running the CLI would also do that. (Using a frame buffer for
CLI is different, but is not the default on a PC.)
You can sometimes pause the display using Ctrl-S or the Pause key.
Printing the screen from the CLI is harder. I used to use something
like "cat /dev/vcs1 > screen.txt" or "cat /dev/vcsa1 > screen.vcsa",
but a normal user can no longer do that. If you have gpm running,
you can copy and paste using hte mouse buttons to save the text to a
file.
One problem with gpm is when it's started, and the other is that some
distros either dont' start it by default (I think Debian doesn't even
install it!), or think one does not need it in runlevel 5.
In contrast, I hold to the view that too many consoles is barely enough
and usually get to this point fairly quickly:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
7:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty7
8:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty8
9:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty9
10:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty10
11:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty11
12:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty12
Some distros tie X to tty7 so that needs to be untied, and some syslog
stuff to tty10 or so (an idea I commend) so that needs to be rearranged too.
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Cheers
John
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