Ubuntu – How to disable Virtual Consoles tty[1-6]

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How do I disable switching to virtual terminals (TTYs) using(Ctrl+Alt+F1…F6) in Ubuntu?

Best Answer

I found three methods. I'm listing to help others if they need:

First Method:

sudo tee -a /etc/init/tty{1..6}.override <<<"manual"

Second Method:

Open/create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf using the following command:

sudo -i gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and add the following lines inside:

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "DontVTSwitch" "true"
EndSection

Third Method:

sudo -i

vi /etc/default/console-setup

change ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" to your choice. Lets say if you want only two TTY or virtual console then change to ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-2]"

cd /etc/event.d

Comment on all the lines in ttyX file that you don't need. In this example tty3-tty6 Reboot to see the change.

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Ubuntu – How to disable Caps Lock on text-mode (tty) terminals

I had success using the instructions posted on this blog in a virtual console:

echo -e "$(dumpkeys | grep ^keymaps)\nkeycode 58 = Escape" | sudo loadkeys

I'm not sure how to apply this automatically after every reboot, though.

While researching your question, I also ran across this alternative solution:

Disable Caps Lock

Ubuntu – Change Default TTY shortcut

You can use bind to bind a key to some function. Here is what I did:

bind '"\ea": ". ~/newScript.sh\n" '

Here newScript.sh is the file which changes the tty and \ea means that whenever Alt+A is pressed, the script executes.

The contents of newScript.sh are:

#! /bin/bash
ttyNum="$(tty)"
ttyNum=$(echo ${ttyNum##*y})
ttyNum=$(( (ttyNum +1) % 7))
chvt $ttyNum

Note that if you want to store the key bindings permanently, you can store them in your `~/.inputrc' file. For more information, you can visit this link: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/find-and-bind-key-sequences-in-bash/5683375

Update: You can store the bind line in your ~/.bashrc file so that you don't have to do it again.