Re: Console question
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:50:47AM -0700, nate wrote:
> Tran Tuan Anh said:
> > HI all:
> >
> > Just a concept question.
> > When I startx from the first console F1,
> > now can can switch to other console by Ctr+Alt+Fn
> >
> > But what if I switch to F1 again? What will happen?
> > I seems to be that I never can get back the window system again..
>
> X uses the next "available" console, typically this is F7 or F8,
> I think F8 is the one .. so CTRL+ALT+F8 to get back to X.
>
> as I just mentioned in another message this is generally a bad
> idea, many systems will hang or crash when switching into and out
> of X on the fly. If this happens to you then the only workaround that
> I know of is to not do it again.
>
> though some systems can switch into and out of X all day long.
>
> nate
>
Sure, sometimes X will hang or crash. But whenever I met such
situations, I can login from another machine, then kill the program
which cause this problem. So, if you have a good net connection, you
don't need to worry about that.
Zeng Nan
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