Re: Alternate text consoles

2022-02-12 Thread Richard England
On 2/12/22 14:24, Joe Zeff wrote: On 2/12/22 15:19, Tim via users wrote: Is your keyboard one of those that you have to press some Fn key to make the f'n function keys work? Test out your F keys in something, see if they do what you expect. AHA!  I'd tried pressing the Fn key at the same tim

Re: Alternate text consoles

2022-02-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 2/12/22 15:19, Tim via users wrote: Is your keyboard one of those that you have to press some Fn key to make the f'n function keys work? Test out your F keys in something, see if they do what you expect. AHA! I'd tried pressing the Fn key at the same time as the others and it didn't work

Re: Alternate text consoles

2022-02-12 Thread Tim via users
Samuel Sieb: >> Assuming you mean the CTRL-ALT-F? consoles, F35 workstation still >> has them and I would be surprised if the XFCE spin changed that. Joe Zeff: > That's what I'd have expected. I'm using a new Gateway laptop and > when I checked the Gateway website, there are no support forums or

Re: Alternate text consoles

2022-02-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 2/12/22 01:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: Assuming you mean the CTRL-ALT-F? consoles, F35 workstation still has them and I would be surprised if the XFCE spin changed that. That's what I'd have expected. I'm using a new Gateway laptop and when I checked the Gateway website, there are no support

Re: Alternate text consoles

2022-02-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/02/2022 16:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/11/22 12:27, Joe Zeff wrote: I've long been accustomed to using the alternate text consoles because there are times that something's stuck on the GUI or there are similar needs to be taken care of.  Now, I've installed F 35 Xfce spin on my new lapto

Re: Alternate text consoles

2022-02-12 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/11/22 12:27, Joe Zeff wrote: I've long been accustomed to using the alternate text consoles because there are times that something's stuck on the GUI or there are similar needs to be taken care of.  Now, I've installed F 35 Xfce spin on my new laptop and they're not available.  Is there so