On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:22:32PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 06/09/2016 10:00 AM, Levi Darrell wrote: > >Hi Debian Users List, > > > >My computer is set to boot into a tty shell. I manually enter X Server by > >issuing the startx command. Previously, I had been able to switch tty > >shells with the keystroke combination Alt + F[1-6]. After attempting to > >reconfigure they keyboard and locales to solve an unrelated problem, > >suddenly this no longer works. > > > >I can still change shells from within X Server by using the combination > >Ctrl + Alt + F[1-6], but I don't want to have to log into X Server in > >order to be able to use all of my tty shells. What could have gone wrong, > >and where do I look to fix the problem? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Levi > > On my box, Alt + F[1-6] does not work in the console either, but Ctrl + Alt > + F[1-6] works fine from the console, just as it does from X.
JFTR, Alt + F[1-6] works fine for me. -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. -- Malcolm X