[Tfug] Silly virtual terminal keys

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Sat Nov 26 10:46:34 MST 2005


On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Mike Morrell wrote:

> On a newly built Gentoo box I ran into a strange problem.  If I am in X 
> (xorg-x11) I can use the shortcut keys to jump around to other virtual 
> terminals.  But, once I am in a command line virtual terminal I can no loner 
> use the shortcut key to jump back to the X session.  The keys still work but 
> only to other CLI virtual terminals.  To get back into X I have to kill and 
> restart it.  I have checked the xorg logs but there are no errors.  Any 
> ideas?

What shortcut keys? (Ctrl-Alt-Function keys?)

Is X still running? What console is it running on?

  Jeremy C. Reed

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