Switching virtual terminals

[Jim Dever]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Correct. From an X session it's Ctrl-Alt-Fn, from a text console it's
> the same, or simply Alt-Fn.

I just tried it again to make sure.  From an X session CTRL+ALT+Fn works 
but from a text console Alt-Fn does nothing.  It's remains at the same 
tty I was at when I issued the CTRL+ALT+Fn from X.  Any ideas?

Jim