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Rajanish Calisa (rcalisa@nla.gov.au) wrote:
: I have linux ( 1.2.13), I have set up 6 virtual consoles and I can
: switch between them using the alt-fx keys. If on one of the consoles,
: I start up the Xserver using 'startx' script, then I can't do the
: switching any more to other virtual consoles. Just by chance I tried
: ctrl-alt-fx and it did switch to another console, but when I switched
: back to the console on which I was running X, I could no longer see
: my windows, some error had occured and X had just hung and I had to
: kill it explicitly. Has anybody faced a similar problem and is
: there a solution to this ?

Yup. Ctrl-alt-Fx = switch to a virtual console. At that point, you can
use Alt-Fx to switch to a v.c.; if you use Alt-Fn, where n is one _higher_
than your normal number of virtual consoles, you'll get back to X.

Eg: I have set up 11 virtual consoles, on tty1 through tty11, which can
be switched to with Alt-F1 through Alt-F11. If I start X, and switch to
a virtual console with Ctrl-Alt-F1 (say), I can get back to X by using
Alt-F12.

HTH.

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