[BRLTTY] Emulating f[0-9]*-keys in input mode

Elias Oltmanns eo at nebensachen.de
Thu Dec 14 06:53:50 EST 2006


Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [quoted lines by Elias Oltmanns on 2006/12/11 at 17:11 +0100]
>
>>I need to switch the terminal when the
>>lockup happens in order to make further investigations. Thats why I'm
>>wondering whether there was a method to type alt-f1 in input mode on a
>>Handy Tech Braille Star 40.
>
> If you have a qwerty keyboard then I'd expect it to work. Even if it doesn't,
> though, you can still switch VTs by pressing the routing key which matches the
> VT you want (the leftmost routing key for tty1, etc) while holding down the
> middle of the right rocker.

Thanks, terminal switching does, indeed, work that way. However, I
still don't understand how emulate F1, F2, ... in input mode. This is
purely out of curiosity now as terminal switching was really the thing
I needed.

Regards,

Elias


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