Re: now from way-out in left field

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:50:32AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
> So I know you can open up 4 or more virtual desktops in X.  And I know
> you can open up any number of terminals.  But I sort of like the nice
> clean look and feel of a plain old vtty for many tasks.  Unfortuately,
> X, it would seem, steals all the F-keys, and the screen it would seem.
> Is there any slight of hand I can do to switch between X on vtty1 and
> my other enabled vtty's?  I've also had KDE lock up solid (as I result
> I'm evaluating gnome), and that would be a good method to fix things,
> instead of the power switch, I would think.  Obviously, I've marked
> myself as a noob, and not to step on toes, but ctrl-alt-del on winNT's
> generally does get one the task manager, unless you are bluescreened.
> If I'm on a tty I feel reasonalby sure I can kill anything locked.
> Unfortunately, the modern world needs X sometimes, lynx only goes so
> far, but then I'm at X's mercy, follow me?  Ok, I'll shut up now.
> Have mercy on my opinions ;)
> 

Unless you've done something with remapping the keyboard
in X and you've done something to /etc/ttys, ctrl-alt-Fn
where n = 1, ..., 12 should work.

-- 
Steve