Re: Switching between X and Text mode terminals
"Alfie Costa" <agcosta@gis.net> writes:
| 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.
Hmm, I didn't even know the Alt-F# thing worked? Anyway, Ctrl+Alt+F#
will switch between consoles. By default X is running in console 7. So
1-6 are text consoles.
Gary
Reply to: