Re: X and text consoles - switching back & forth?
On 1 Jan 1998, William R Ward wrote:
>
> I once saw someone (running Red Hat) who had an X session going on one
> console, and text sessions (or if he wanted, he could run additional X
> sessions) on the others. He switched using Ctrl-Alt-F<n> (1<=n<=6).
>
> When I try this, I can switch just fine from X to text, but not back
> again. If I run X on console 1, and then press Ctrl-Alt-F2, it works,
> but when I try to switch back with Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or just Alt-F1) I get
> a text screen showing the output of xinit, and can find no way to get
> back into Xwindows.
>
> Does anyone here know how to make this work? I've seen it working,
> although it was on a Red Hat system, so I know it's at least
> theoretically possible.
Use Alt-F7 (or Ctrl-Alt-F7) to get back to the X screen.
Bob
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