Try "Ctrl-Alt-F1" F1 through F6 are text terminals. F7 is the X terminal. If your is set up like mine:) Hope that helped, Kent
Alfie Costa wrote: > 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. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null