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Re: X and text consoles - switching back & forth?



Ok .. your X terminal is at F7. 

On 1 Jan 1998, William R Ward wrote:

> 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.
> 
> --Bill.
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