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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How to switch back from terminal mode to X? Date: 8 Feb 1995 01:04:21 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3h95al$i4@tipellium.apana.org.au> References: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950202112254.999K-100000@sys14> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au Dave Waddell <waddell@POSC.org> writes: >I am using CTRL-ALT-F2 to switch from my X-windows session to terminal >session 2. However, I can't find any way to switch back to the X-session >on terminal 1. If I do ALT-F1 I get the terminal output during the X >startup and CTRL-ALT-F1 is ignored. The X server doesn't use the vty which you started X from to run X, it uses the first available vty. For example, if you run getty on ttyv0, ttyv1 and ttyv2, X will start on ttyv3 regardless of where, when or how it was started. The simplest method of finding your X session after using CTRL-ALT-F? to switch out of it, is to hold down ALT and run your fingers along all of those F keys until your screen goes POP! Wheeee! Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | C/- 195 Gilles Street | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide SA 5006 |