[Gllug] Getting the current VT

[Mike Brodbelt]

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.

Mike.

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