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Posted Jun 15, 2016 3:00 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Rant by rsidd
Parent article: Distributors ponder a systemd change

> Many of us were used to Ctrl-Alt-Function keys giving you consoles. That got disabled too for reasons I don't understand. Well, ok.

Huh? When was this disabled? Have a reference?

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Posted Jun 15, 2016 6:35 UTC (Wed) by jrigg (guest, #30848) [Link] (5 responses)

It's switched off by default. There's a way to enable it in systemd config but I can't find a link to the info at the moment. I'm using sysvinit-core on my Debian systems which allows it to work.

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Posted Jun 15, 2016 6:53 UTC (Wed) by jrigg (guest, #30848) [Link]

Found it: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html

Looks like you can re-enable additional ttys by changing NAutoVTs= in logind.conf .

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Posted Jun 15, 2016 8:16 UTC (Wed) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link] (3 responses)

Debian systems and one ubuntu system.
All have consoles on Ctrl+Alt+Fn. I don't remember having changed a config setting.

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Posted Jun 15, 2016 8:57 UTC (Wed) by jrigg (guest, #30848) [Link] (2 responses)

When I tried systemd on Debian 8 Testing prior to upgrading my systems, Ctrl+Alt+Fn didn't work. It may have changed by the time Debian 8 was released (which wasn't long after I tested it) but I haven't tried it since.

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Posted Jun 15, 2016 11:56 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

Huh. The default on Fedora is for 6 VTs.

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Posted Jun 15, 2016 15:05 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

On Debian 8 (Jessie), too. Everything is basically as it used to be.