Re: X doesn't redisplay on return from console

[Paul Mackinney <paul@mackinney.net>]

Dan Griswold declaimed:
> Derek Loree <derek@infotects.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi Dan,
> > 
> > Dan Griswold wrote:
> > >
> > > If I am in X, and then go to the a console (say) by means of
> > > ctrl-alt-F1, and then return to X with (e.g.) ctrl-alt-F7, then X
> > > doesn't come back up. I think it's running, but it ceases to send
> > > anything to the screen.
Has ctrl-alt-F7 ever worked? It doesn't for me, and I used to resign
myself to blowing my X session away after switching to the console.

Then I learned that alt-left-arrow will cycle through the console
windows and bring X back.

Sorry if this answer is too basic, etc.

Paul
-- 
Paul Mackinney
paul@mackinney.net


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org