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Originally Posted by hawhill
In fact, the terminals you can access on a typical Unixoid system nowadays are virtual, but not pseudo terminals. The OS presents them as /dev/ttyN, not /dev/ptyN / /dev/pts/N. xterm however will create a pseudo terminal. You can't switch among these with ALT-F<n>, since they do not necessarily have "siblings". However, you can use a terminal multiplexer like screen or tmux to archieve a similar effect. I'm using tmux within myts here on my K3.
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Hmm...
Capturing the alt-F* keys is a function of the keyboard handling, not of xterm (in this thread, of matchbox-keyboard).
The function is to start (and switch to) another instance of xterm on another /dev/tty* (of those with a handler assigned in /etc/inittab).
A terminal multiplexer, does just that, multiplexes a single terminal instance, not create a new one. Those applications are from the days when the user only had a single set of wires to a single, physical, terminal interface.
Not related to my question concerning keyboard handling in matchbox-keyboard.