Re: wscons - key combo to switch ?

[Michael <macallan1888%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello,

On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:24:35 -0400
vom513 <vom513%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> This is on a type 5 keyboard.
> 
> I have wscons enabled, and here is my (relevant section) /etc/ttys:
> 
> console "/usr/libexec/getty suncons"    wsvt25  off secure
> constty "/usr/libexec/getty suncons"    wsvt25  off secure
> ttyE0   "/usr/libexec/getty suncons"    wsvt25  on secure
> ttyE1   "/usr/libexec/getty suncons"    wsvt25  on secure
> ttyE2   "/usr/libexec/getty suncons"    wsvt25  on secure
> 
> Ctrl-ALT-F[23] does nothing (well it prints a tilde).
> 
> Is there something else on sun/sparc to do to get this working ?

Stop instead of ctrl-alt is the traditional way.
I should probably do what I did with ADB keyboards ( there we switch
with Command-F* ) - introduce a keymap variant that uses ctrl-alt, just
so all kayboards behave the same ( and you can have stop-F* switching
on USB keyboards... ) 

have fun
Michael