on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:14:25PM +0100, Carlos Betancourt (carlos@tradeware.be) wrote:
> I have installed Potato in an old SparcStation IPC and everything works
> fine. However I'm unable to switch back to the console, as is normal in
> PC machines. I mean, I don't want to kill X; I want to use the
> ctrl+alt+Fn functionality.
> Is it possible to do it?
Yes.
Have you remapped your Control key (intentionally or otherwise)? Many
people find the <CapsLock> key superfluous (or at least annoying in its
usual PC/Mac location), and map it to a more useful key. There's a
"swap ctrl-capslock" feature in at least the XF86v3 configuration file
(not sure if it's in XF86v4, I use xmodmap explicitly).
You can also generally get to a specific virtual console by running the
'chvt' command as root:
$ chvt <terminal number>
...where terminal is typically 1-6 for text consoles, or 7 for the first
X session.
Peace.
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