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Old 12-02-2010
vt switching
greetings,

i hope this hasn't been covered previously. has anyone heard of a .kext or daemon that would allow linux or (open)solaris-like vt switching? googling didn't help much..

i know os x allows a '>console' login from loginwindow.app, but i'm mainly interested in this because there are no usable full-screen terminal emulators for os x which are able to run *alongside* the windowing system. there is a simbl plugin called 'mega zoom' which allows windows (e.g. those of terminal.app) to fill the screen, but even a scroll bar can become awfully distracting. visor is cool for short commands, but the full screen mode is just as bad. iterm comes closest, but it struggles with accented characters.

thanks,
bamdad
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MKEXTUNPACK(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					    MKEXTUNPACK(8)

NAME

     mkextunpack -- extract or list the contents of a multikext (mkext) archive

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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