On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 04:54:31PM -0800, Grant wrote > I send a system image of my laptop to various other laptops of the > same make and model which they use to operate. I wrote a script for > this and it works great. I've run into a situation where a particular > new (used) laptop works fine but the Alt+F2 shortcut to open the > program launcher in xfce4 doesn't work and I can't switch to VTs 1-3 > with Ctrl+Alt+F1/F2/F3. VT4 works but then VT7 doesn't bring back the > desktop. I'm not sure what this is pointing to. Any ideas?
The "chvt" command can change terminals. E.g. "chvt 1" is equivalant to Ctrl+Alt+F1. *NOTE*... "chvt" requires root (or su/sudo) permission to work. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
