Re: Switching virtual terminals

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 11:12 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 10:27 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > 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. 
> 
> It's Alt + function keys.  When in the text consoles, you can ALT+F2 or
> CTRL+ALT+F2 on every computer that I've tried it with.  I'm not on
> Fedora 9 at the moment to check if that still works both ways, but I'm
> fairly sure I've CTRL+ALT+Fx a few times back and forth, on Fedora 9,
> over the last few days.
> 
On my machine Alt-Fx does something different. It allows you to run a
program in a virtual terminal.
> -- 
> (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, all using Gnome
>  in case that's important to the thread.)
> 
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> I read messages from the public lists.
> 
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