FGCONSOLE(1)

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version 2.10.0 · 3 versions
, in alpine 3.22, alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, arch rolling, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ FGCONSOLE(1) 💖 General Commands Manual ✨

🎀 NAME

okay so fgconsole is the tool that tells you the number of the active VT 💅 — it prints it out, nothing fancy, just the vibe you need 🧚

🌸 SYNOPSIS

fgconsole [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION

okay so if the active Virtual Terminal is /dev/ttyN, then it prints N on standard output 🔥

if the console is a serial console, then serial gets printed instead 🙈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -n, --next-available — bestie this one shows the next unallocated virtual terminal 💜 normally 6 virtual terminals are allocated, with number 7 used for X, so this will return 8 in this case 🫶
  • -C, --console=DEV — the console device to be used 🌈
  • -V, --version — prints the version number 💅
  • -h, --help — prints this usage message 🍓

🧚 NOTES

ngl this part is so iconic 😭 under devfs, the consoles are in /dev/vc/N 🎀 and devfsd may maintain symlinks for compatibility 🦋

👑 AUTHORS

Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> 💖

Manpage by Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org> ✨

💅 SEE ALSO

chvt(1), deallocvt(1), openvt(1) 🌈

okay bestie that's the whole tea ☕💜 this page came from the kbd package, last updated 24 October 2024, and it's all about FGCONSOLE(1) 🫶✨ slay forever 💖

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