Linux and Sound
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
Sun Mar 16 23:40:32 EDT 2008
On Mar 16, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Paul Lussier wrote:
> "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.
Out of habit, I usually just wind up always hitting ctrl-atl-f* to
move from vt to vt, and it works for moving from any vt to any other
vt just fine for me. (Fedora, of course).
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Jarod Wilson
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