To switch the hft between two attached consoles use this excerpt from the AIX6000 FORUM trying to move the hft from CGA to Gt4: This has to be done from the "green screen". If this is AIX 4 and you've got the desktop running, shut it down. One way to do this is to comment out the dt line (afs-dt if you have the afsrcmds installed) from /etc/inittab and reboot. Then 1) do "lsdisp" -- it'll probably say that '2' is the Gt4 2) do "chdisp -t 2" to move your current hft session to the Gt4 3) do "tty" to show the name of the session the way "chcons" wants it. 4) do "chcons /dev/hft/..." or "chcons `tty` " to change the ODM. 5) reboot and the console should be moved. Actually, the above is a little confusing and isn't what Becky did on ananda on 3-18-97. She had to shut the desktop down and reboot, but after that, all she did the lsdisp and chdisp -d to the other display, the one that wasn't the default. She didn't have to change the console, it's still /dev/lft0.