Linux and Sound

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Sun Mar 16 22:43:39 EDT 2008


"Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> writes:

>> Alt-Ctrl-F3 to a terminal window and Ctrl-Alt-F7 once didn't
>> work, but Ctrl-Alt-F4 and Ctrl-Alt-F7 three times did :)
>> Bizarre, but it's a work-around that I thought might help others.

When you're not in X, you don't need the Ctrl-Alt sequence, it's just
Alt.  Just like moving to vt2 or vt3 is simply Alt-F2 and Alt-F3,
moving back to the X console is just Alt-F7.  I think think the Ctrl
modifier will actually not work most of the time *except* when you're
already in vt7, on which X is usually running.

>
>    x=3; while [ $x -gt 0 ]; do chvt 1; sleep 3; chvt 7; sleep 6; let x--; done

Ah, cool, I somehow didn't know about the chvt command...
-- 
Seeya,
Paul


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