[Gllug] Getting the current VT

[Christian Smith]

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Mike Brodbelt wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 00:23 +0100, Benedikt Heinen wrote:
>> > Very quick question - does anyone know how to get the value of the
>> > current virtual terminal from a script?
>>
>> Like this?
>>
>>
>>  	--> in a shell window under X11:
>>
>>  		beh at berenium:~ $ tty
>>  		/dev/pts/5
>>  		beh at berenium:~ $
>>
>>  	--> in a virtual console:
>>
>>  		beh at berenium:~ $ tty
>>  		/dev/tty3
>>  		beh at berenium:~ $
>
>
>That wasn't exaclt what I was thinking - I want something that tells me
>vt7 is the current display if I'm under X at all. You can get the
>information I'm from the kernel with the VT_GETSTATE ioctl, and it would
>be easy enough to write a small C program to return it, but I was hoping
>there was a pre-existing command that would do it.


Just curious, but why should you care? What are you trying to do exactly?


>
>Mike.
>

Christian

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