Switching virtual terminals

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 14:51:08 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 09:10 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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.

That still works, but Alt-Fn also works from a text console (don't know
if that's a change or not since I always use the Ctrl-Alt-Fn version).

poc




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