Switching virtual terminals
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jun 6 14:10:30 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 10:27 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 05Jun2008 20:18, Jim Dever <jdever at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> > From X I can hit Alt-Ctrl-F1 or Alt-Ctrl-F2 to get to a virtual
> terminal
> > but once there I can't get back to X (Alt-Ctrl-F7). I can't even
> change
> > to another virtual terminal (Alt-Ctrl-F1 through F6).
> >
> > I'm using a plain vanilla F9 install but have had this problem since
> I
> > started using Fedora at F7.
>
> I think it's Just Ctrl-, not Alt-Ctrl-, from text console land.
> Or just Alt-. But anyway, only one of the modifiers, not both.
Then that is a change. Traditionally it has been ctrl-alt-Fx , with
ctrl-alt-F7 taking you back to the X session.
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