The man page should mention why chvt can't be made to work within X
windows. (Or better yet, please make it work.)

I.e., one cannot do
$ chvt 1
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

But from outside X windows one can do
$ chvt 7
to get back in.

forcemerge 522453 557171
thanks

Hi!

This is a fundamental limitation of all kbd tools which need a console
file descriptor to work; it is most obvious with tools like openvt,
fgconsole and chvt.  I’m merging this report with #522453.

Cheers,

MS> This is a fundamental limitation of all kbd tools which need a console
MS> file descriptor to work; it is most obvious with tools like openvt,
MS> fgconsole and chvt.  I’m merging this report with #522453.
Well maybe some program could write something in /var/run where another
program could read it or something...

request tag accessability security important

I am restriced to one hand and forced to enable stickykeys everywhere

It's too difficult to switch consoles with three finget hotkey and sometimes impossible.

as emergency action I set suid root on chvt which setting suid on a binary not designed for it is a bad idea