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Re: Switching ttys



You have to use the "screen" program.

Ctrl-a c 
creates screens

Ctrl-a n
switches screens

Jon

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Chris Gray wrote:

> 
> I feel kind of ashamed for asking such a simple question, but is it
> possible to switch terminals as Alt-Fn does in Linux?  It's rather
> frustrating only having one terminal to work with and I haven't gotten X
> working yet.  Also, su doesn't really seem to work (I get the error
> "su: can't set groups: Operation not permitted") which means I have to
> log out and log back in a few times if I want to do something as root.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
> 

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