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.