How to redirect tty1 to an X11 (KDE) Konsole shell

I guess this is not really an answer, but it might be a starting point.

I started a bunch of extra X servers using xinit like so;

xinit -- :1 tty3   
xinit -- :2    
xinit -- :3 tty5    
xinit -- :4

It looks like I can even start multiple gnome3 and xfce sessions on different virtual displays

startx -- :2  tty3   
startx -- :3  tty4

And now I can start stuff in those sessions by exporting the DISPLAY var export DISPLAY=:3 and then select it using the Ctrl-Alt-F2, F3 etc

However I have absolutely no idea what I am doing (am I switching DISPLAY, session, console, or tty?), its just pretty cool, as you say... ;-)

[tomh@workstation001 ~]$ export DISPLAY=:4
[tomh@workstation001 ~]$ google-chrome

There's one big issue here: under the linux console there's no way to distinguish Ctrl-Down from Down, they both send the same ^[[B sequence.

To make it work we'd need to find a hack for the linux console to change that. Not pretty, but if you care enough about it it might be possible.

Otherwise, how about using another key binding ? Say Alt-/,
Just need to add this to /etc/joe/joerc next to the other one:

dnarw,uparw,begin_marking,dnarw,toggle_marking  ^[ /            Mark down

and now it works in the terminal and console =)