[20416] in Athena Bugs
inittab: "type ctrl-alt-f7"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed Jun 26 05:34:51 2002
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 05:34:49 -0400
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Very minor nit:
The virtual consoles of athena machines are configured (in the
inittab) to say:
Type CTRL-ALT-F7 to log in.
if users switch to that console.
This message is in fact wrong; xfree86 uses ctrl-alt-f#, and the
netbsd console uses ctrl-alt-f#, but the linux console uses
left_alt-f#. Not even right_alt, just left_alt.
I don't know of any attractive way to represent LEFT_ALT to the user.
Type LEFT_ALT-F7 to log in.
is an explosion of caps, and the underscore is hard enough to see
that the line looks like "left" followed by "alt-f7".
Perhaps:
Type (left_alt)-F7 to log in.
would work?
-Jake
