SchOS/include/vt.h
Nexoniarz fe2f5e1bf8 tty: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F1..F6, and VT_SETMODE actually works
Alt+1..6 was a worse choice than the Alt+F-keys it replaced, and the reason
is the one that matters: anything the kernel swallows is taken from every
program that will ever run here, permanently.

Alt+<digit> is Meta-digit. zsh's own line editor binds it as digit-argument --
Alt+1 Alt+2 x repeats x twelve times -- and every readline editor does the
same. Yesterday's chord broke that system-wide, which is exactly the failure
mode of picking a chord applications want.

Working the whole space instead of one axis of it:

  the HOST takes    Alt+F4, Alt+F2, Ctrl+Alt+F1..F6
  APPLICATIONS want Alt+anything (Meta), Ctrl+letter, Ctrl+Shift+digit
                    (Ctrl+Shift+2 types ^@), bare F-keys
  the LAYOUT wants  AltGr+letter -- Polish diacritics

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F1..F6 is in none of those sets. Display managers bind the same
chord without Shift, so adding it steps out of the host's way, and no terminal
application binds a triple-modified function key.

Which chords actually reach a guest was measured rather than assumed: a
temporary probe in kbdgetc logged every modified keypress and QEMU's sendkey
fired each candidate at it. Everything reached the guest, Ctrl+Alt+F2
included -- so that conflict is the host's display manager, not QEMU. The same
probe corrected an earlier claim: `sendkey altgr-2` produces no event at all,
so the previous commit's "AltGr+2 did not fire" was never actually tested.

And the escape hatch is real now. VT_SETMODE was accepted and ignored, so a
program could ask to own the chord, be told yes, and still not get it.
VT_PROCESS genuinely stops the kernel switching. Together with the EVIOCGRAB
path -- which kbdgetc already checks before the chord is recognised -- there
are three honest layers: nothing, VT_PROCESS, exclusive grab.

What VT_PROCESS still does not do is the VT_RELDISP handshake; struct vt_mode
carries relsig/acqsig for when Schcom needs to release the GPU before the
screen changes hands.

Verified by screendump hash: Alt+2 reaches zsh as Meta, Ctrl+Alt+F2 and
Ctrl+Shift+F2 leave the screen untouched, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F2 switches.
schfs-check passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VQ7Qx8E1q1M1bbCq8QLHS2
2026-09-13 13:05:43 +02:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
//
// Virtual terminals.
//
// Until this existed there was one console. `/dev/tty` was an alias for
// `/dev/console` with the same major and minor, `tty_fg_pgrp` was a single
// global int, and TIOCSCTTY was `return 0`. One screen, one foreground
// process group, one line discipline, no way to have a second shell.
//
// The thing that makes switching possible is a backing store. The console
// drew straight into the framebuffer and scrolled by moving pixels, which
// works exactly as long as nothing else ever wants the screen: there was
// nowhere to put terminal 2 while terminal 1 was visible, and nothing to
// repaint terminal 1 from when it came back. So each VT owns a grid of cells
// and the framebuffer shows whichever grid is active.
//
// A VT that is not active is not a special case. Writes to it land in its
// grid, its cursor moves, it scrolls; the only thing it does not do is draw.
// That is the whole switching mechanism: vt_switch repaints, and everything
// else is written as though it were always on screen.
#ifndef VT_H
#define VT_H
#include "types.h"
#include "param.h"
#include "posix.h"
// Six, and Linux's numbering: /dev/tty1 through /dev/tty6, reached with
// Alt+1..Alt+6. A seventh is deliberately not bound -- that is where a
// display server goes, and Schcom will want it.
#define NVT 6
// A cell.
//
// `ch` is the glyph the font draws, not a codepoint: the console maps UTF-8
// to CP437 before it gets here, because that is what include/font.h contains.
// Storing the codepoint would mean re-running that mapping on every repaint
// and getting a different answer for anything the font cannot draw.
//
// The colours are palette indices rather than RGB. Sixteen ANSI colours plus
// the two theme defaults fit in a byte each and make a cell four bytes; the
// same cell holding two 32-bit colours would be twelve, and the grids are
// static.
struct vtcell {
uint8 ch;
uint8 fg;
uint8 bg;
uint8 attr; // reserved: bold/underline/reverse, which do not change
}; // the glyph and so can be added without touching a grid
#define VT_FG_DEFAULT 16 // SCH_FG from include/theme.h
#define VT_BG_DEFAULT 17 // SCH_BG
#define VT_NCOLOUR 18
// Cell attributes that do not change which glyph is drawn, only how.
#define VT_ATTR_REVERSE 0x01
// The largest console a grid can hold, which is 1920x1200 with the 8x16 font.
// A framebuffer wider or taller than this still works -- vt_init clamps the
// grid and the rest of the screen stays background -- but it is worth raising
// rather than living with, because the clamp is invisible until someone
// notices the bottom of their screen never has text on it.
#define VT_MAXCOLS 240
#define VT_MAXROWS 75
#define VT_INPUT_BUF 256
#define VT_MAXPARM 8
// Escape parser states. E_OSC and E_OSC_ESC exist for hyperlinks: a terminal
// that does not follow OSC 8 must still consume it, or the URL is printed as
// text. See the comment in kernel/core/console.c that this came from.
enum { VE_NORMAL, VE_ESC, VE_CSI, VE_OSC, VE_OSC_ESC };
struct vt {
int index; // 0-based; /dev/tty<index+1>
int cols, rows;
struct vtcell *cells; // cols*rows, row-major, into vt_storage
int cx, cy; // cursor, in cells
// Deferred wrap, the rule every real terminal follows and none of them
// document well: a glyph printed in the last column does NOT move the
// cursor to the next line. It sets this instead, and the wrap happens when
// the *next* glyph arrives. Anything that moves the cursor deliberately --
// CR, LF, backspace, an escape sequence -- clears it.
int wrap_pending;
int saved_cx, saved_cy; // DECSC/DECRC
uint8 fg, bg; // current SGR colours
int bold;
int attr; // VT_ATTR_* applied to new cells
// Escape parser.
int esc_state;
int esc_parm[VT_MAXPARM];
int esc_nparm;
int esc_private;
// UTF-8 decoder.
uint32 u8_cp;
int u8_need;
// Line discipline. One per terminal, because ICANON and ECHO are properties
// of a terminal and not of the machine.
struct termios tio;
struct {
char buf[VT_INPUT_BUF];
uint r, w, e;
uint abort_read;
uint eof;
} in;
// Job control. This was one global for the whole system; a terminal each
// is the entire point of having more than one.
int fg_pgrp;
int sid; // session that owns this terminal, 0 = none
int opened; // times it has been opened, for /dev/tty
// VT_AUTO or VT_PROCESS. In VT_PROCESS a program has claimed switching and
// the kernel stops acting on the chord -- see vt_kernel_switches().
int mode;
};
// The active terminal, and the one the framebuffer is showing.
extern int vt_active;
void vt_init(void);
void vt_resize(void); // a scanout arrived; re-measure
struct vt *vt_get(int i); // 0-based, clamped, never null
struct vt *vt_current(void);
int vt_switch(int i); // 0-based; repaints. -1 if out of range
// Output, per terminal. Drawing happens only if `v` is the active one.
void vt_feed(struct vt *v, int c); // one output byte, through the parser
void vt_putc(struct vt *v, int glyph); // one glyph, already mapped
void vt_cursor_set(struct vt *v, int col, int row);
void vt_cursor_get(struct vt *v, int *col, int *row);
void vt_erase_display(struct vt *v, int mode);
void vt_erase_line(struct vt *v, int mode);
void vt_clear(struct vt *v);
void vt_scroll(struct vt *v);
void vt_repaint(struct vt *v); // grid -> framebuffer, if active
uint32 vt_rgb(uint8 idx); // palette index -> RGB
int vt_index(struct vt *v); // 0-based number of a terminal
int vt_kernel_switches(void); // 0 if a program owns switching
#endif // VT_H