18 Apr
2017
18 Apr
'17
20:02
On 2017-04-18 20:52, L A Walsh wrote:
Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
It starts a gui desktop. Why can't I get to a terminal from here? I try pressing ALT-F1 to get to the 1st console, but its ignored, and alt-f2 gets brings up an application finder.
This has been the case in X11 GUI since ever.
---- ??? When I'm at the console, if I start a GUI, I can press ALT-F1 to get one of the alternate consoles -- usually graphics was on tty7 (alt-f7), w/text mode tty1-6 available via alt-f{1..6}. This was the case prior to sysd.
No. It has always been ctrl-alt-f1, never alt-f1, as far as I remember. Once you are in text mode, alt-f1, alt-f2, etc do work. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)