On 4 February 2015 15:27:32 CET, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: >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.
Also, and this is just for completeness, once in a text console, you can use <ALT>+<arrowleft or arrowright> to cycle through the vt's in the direction of the arrow keys. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
