nanogui: how to return to framebuffer console from mwin?
Subject:
Re: how to return to framebuffer console from mwin?
From:
"Greg Haerr" ####@####.####
Date:
7 Sep 2000 03:11:50 -0000
Message-Id: <008a01c01879$d8a38b40$6817dbd0@censoft.com>
: I have one question: How do I return the fb console, where the screen
: was before mwin started.
This is somewhat tricky. The code that handles this is in
src/drivers/vtswitch.c, and is enabled by the VTSWITCH=Y
config option. I suggest you take a look at this code, which
relies on a kernel signal being sent when the console
is switched by the kbd driver. This code is automatically called
when the GsTerminate (MwTerminate) call is made on
Microwindows shutdown.
:
: So far, I have been killing mwin apps by telneting into the box and do a
: manual "kill". However, that does not bring the console back into the
: original fb console mode.
Yes, there are problems in doing it this way. I can reset the console
by then running an mwin app and exiting it with an ESC press, which
calls the MwTerminate() code. You might need to write a small app
that just calls MwInit and then MwTerminate to reset the console buffer,
which uses the vtswitch.c code above.
:
: In addition, if I start next mwin app, such mterm, the keyboard input
: seems lost.
You can't run multiple mwin win32 apps at the present time. All
apps must be bound into the same "server". I've been thinking about
a shared library solution to this problem, which would be fairly
straightfwd,
but it would still run all the apps in the same process space.
Regards,
Greg
:
: Any ideas?
:
: Thanks.
:
: Jun
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