Hey, If I get you correctly, you want a tty?
Ctrl+Alt + [1,2,3,4,5,6] is tty mode which is fairly low res. Ctrl + Alt + 7 gets you back to the desktop mode. Cheers, On 30 August 2016 at 17:48, Mayuresh Kathe <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, i had been working with the high resolution of the console as > delivered with ubuntu server distribution, hated it, but had to make do > since i couldn't find material which could show me a way to switch off > the 'vga' mode. > > last night, i migrated away from ubuntu, it's too big for my tastes. > on debian jessie, and this too has that same high resolution console. > > i have tinkered around with the console-setup and grub files which only > afforded me a regular console on grub, but after grub transfers command > to the operating system, i am still stuck with a high resolution > console. > > is there any solution for this problem? > > and ah, yes, i still work at the console, no x11 for me. > > thanks, > > ~mayuresh > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- Regards, Johnson Chetty -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
