Re: Switching between X and Text mode terminals

[ktb <ktb@binary.net>]

Try "Ctrl-Alt-F1"   F1 through F6 are text terminals.  F7 is the X terminal.  If your
is set up like mine:)
Hope that helped,
Kent


Alfie Costa wrote:

> Question:
>
> Is there an easy way, such as a few keystrokes or a command, to switch
> between text terminals and X, and vice-versa?
>
> That is, before running X, I can press 'Alt-F1' to get the first text
> terminal, 'Alt-F2' to get the second, and so on.  Once I'm in X, this
> doesn't work.  It seems as if one has to quit X to return to one of
> those other text terminals.
>
> If that's not clear, the simplest example of what's desired might be to
> boot up, and login as root.  Press 'Alt-F2', and login as some other
> user, and from that terminal, type 'startx'.  Then to somehow return to
> the 1st root window without quitting X.
>
> It would be useful in some cases, as some programs look better in text
> mode, others don't run well in X, and some programs don't run at all
> in X.
>
> I wouldn't have thought it was possible, till I ran, (from X), an app
> that required SVGAlib.  X seemed to crash, as there was an error
> message, and the screen was back in text mode.  Running 'ps' showed
> that X was still alive though.  I found I could switch between text
> terminals OK, and if I did an 'Alt-right_arrow' past the last text
> terminal, X came back up, seemingly no worse for the wear.
>
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