"Alfie Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | 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.
Hmm, I didn't even know the Alt-F# thing worked? Anyway, Ctrl+Alt+F# will switch between consoles. By default X is running in console 7. So 1-6 are text consoles. Gary