What is "+" on mouse cursor?

[Bill Perkins]

Derek Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:45:21AM -0500, David Niemi wrote:
> 
>>Also, for future reference what is it called when one Ctrl-Alt-F1's or
>>Ctrl-Alt-F7's? 
> 
> 
> It's called switching "virtual consoles" (or VCs for short).  By
> default on Fedora (and I think most Linux systems) there are usually 6
> defined, plus X uses the 7th when it starts at boot time (or when
> started manually).  
> 
> These virtual consoles are defined in /etc/inittab, and you can have
> more or less of them if you like, up to 12.  Technically I believe the
> Linux kernel allows for more of them than that, but since the method
> of switching to them involves the key sequence <Alt>-<Fx>, and most
> keyboards only have 12 function keys, that seems like the practical
> limit.  There must be a way to switch to the others, but I've never
> come across such a way...  I can imagine it might have to do with
> remapping the keyboard somehow.
> 

IIRC, Shift+Ctrl+Fx will access more consoles from a normal text 
console. Don't know how/if it works under X; I've found 6 consoles to be 
more than adequate.

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