Switch between x and prompt

tfrye · 04-17-2001, 03:20 PM

Is there a keystroke combination I can do that will shift from X to the terminal when i am in KDE and GNOME?

trickykid · 04-17-2001, 04:49 PM

Yep, ctrl-alt-F1 thru F6 and ctrl-alt-F7 will take you back to X if you had X opened. Ctrl-alt-Backspace will kill the X session as well.

CragStar · 04-17-2001, 04:51 PM

When linux didn't have X, it used multiple terminal screens to be a multitasking Operating system. To get to these other terminals (they are completely separate to X) then just use these together

ctrl-alt-F(1,2,3,4,5,6)

Where you can use up to I think 8 differnt screens (each one a F1 key or F2 etc....)

I think though that you have to login at each different screen, and you cant get another X terminal up either.

Not sure if that is what you are looking for, and why not use the terminals in KDE or Gnome anyway?

CragStar · 04-17-2001, 04:53 PM

It looks like both Trickykid and I were on at the same time!! Doh!

trickykid · 04-17-2001, 05:04 PM

Gotta love it man.....but you typed yours out easier to read than mine....no fair!

Pashupathi Srinivasa · 04-18-2001, 04:35 AM

HI,

Basically ctrl+alt+F1...F7 are called 'Virtual Consoles' (vc). We refer them as vc1, vc2 ... vc7. If you are in X you need to switch to other consoles using Ctrl+alt+F?, otherwise you can use only Alt+F?. (? substitued to the console number).

You can't have different X sessions in each console. It is impossible. Whatever X you run will be put to vc-F7. It is a dedicated console for X.

Pashupathi Srinivasa/..

tfrye · 04-18-2001, 08:29 AM

Thanks for all the feedback.

To answer Cragstar, I do run the terminal in KDE or GNOME, but I have been known to freeze them. Since it is not the best thing to simply shutdown the PC, I have heard of cases where if the desktop freezes, there is a keystroke that will kill it and drop you back to command line.

Hopefully all the feedback will help me in those cases where I overload my desktop.

Pashupathi Srinivasa · 04-18-2001, 09:44 PM

Hi,

To freeze X you can use ctrl+alt+bkspace

Srinivasa/..

ajtaus · 12-21-2001, 07:18 AM

Just a quickie because I can't seem to work it out, but how do you switch between sessions when using KDE? Is it the same as using ctl alt F<x> as was mentioned before?