Uttered "William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net>, spake thus: > > know a) how to call up a terminal session with just a keyboard and > > Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-F2, etc. You need the "Ctrl-foo" chord only to get past the X11 input routines and get out of X11. Once into the text-mode virtual terminals, the "Alt-Fn" pair is sufficient.