"Alfie Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Question:
| 
| Is there an easy way, such as a few keystrokes or a command, to switch 
| between text terminals and X, and vice-versa?
| 
| That is, before running X, I can press 'Alt-F1' to get the first text 
| terminal, 'Alt-F2' to get the second, and so on.  Once I'm in X, this 
| doesn't work.  It seems as if one has to quit X to return to one of 
| those other text terminals.
| 
| If that's not clear, the simplest example of what's desired might be to 
| boot up, and login as root.  Press 'Alt-F2', and login as some other 
| user, and from that terminal, type 'startx'.  Then to somehow return to 
| the 1st root window without quitting X.
| 
| It would be useful in some cases, as some programs look better in text 
| mode, others don't run well in X, and some programs don't run at all 
| in X.  
| 
| I wouldn't have thought it was possible, till I ran, (from X), an app 
| that required SVGAlib.  X seemed to crash, as there was an error 
| message, and the screen was back in text mode.  Running 'ps' showed 
| that X was still alive though.  I found I could switch between text 
| terminals OK, and if I did an 'Alt-right_arrow' past the last text 
| terminal, X came back up, seemingly no worse for the wear.

Hmm, I didn't even know the Alt-F# thing worked? Anyway, Ctrl+Alt+F#
will switch between consoles. By default X is running in console 7. So 
1-6 are text consoles.

Gary

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