NAME¶
conspy - virtual console spy tool
SYNOPSIS¶
conspy [ options ] [
console ]
DESCRIPTION¶
Conspy allows the user to take control of a Linux virtual console. The
user can see what is displayed on the console and their keystrokes are sent to
it.
To exit from
conspy press the escape key three times in quick succession.
COMMAND LINE¶
- -V, --version
- Print the program's version and exit.
- -v, --viewonly
- Don't send keystrokes to the virtual console.
- console
- If supplied, console must be a number in the range 1
.. 63, corresponding to the virtual console device /dev/tty1 ..
/dev/tty63. If not supplied the currently active virtual console is opened
and tracked.
LIMITATIONS¶
Conspy will not pass keystrokes to a virtual console whose keyboard is
configured to send scan codes. X configures its keyboard like this. If the
terminal does not have at least 64 colours no colour will be displayed.
Conspy ignores the mouse.
Conspy may display some non-ASCII
characters incorrectly.
Conspy does not handle displays larger than
16000 characters (eg 200 rows x 80 columns).
Conspy depends on terminfo and curses working correctly for your
terminal, and sometimes they don't. Konsole is/was one example of where they
don't. Typing control-L will redraw the screen, which usually fixes the mess
created. It also sends a control-L to the virtual console, of course.
FILES¶
- /dev/ttyX, /dev/vc/X
- The characters typed are sent to this device. The latter is
for devfs. It is only used if the former does not exist.
- /dev/vcsaX, /dev/vcc/aX
- The display of the virtual console is read from here. The
latter is for devfs. It is only used if the former does not exist.
AUTHOR¶
Russell Stuart, <russell-conspy@stuart.id.au>.