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Re: X doesn't redisplay on return from console



On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 04:45:06PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> 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.

Yes. But alt-F7 from a console should be sufficient.  Maybe your
ctrl-alt combo is getting eaten by something?

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

There is that.

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>


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