CTRL-ALT-F1

[Tony Nelson]

At 1:17 PM -0600 1/24/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>Tony Nelson wrote:
>>
>> The text consoles don't have any scrollback of their own.  Neither does
>> bash -- the default gnome-terminal provides scrollback.
>>
>One small exception - the VT (Ctrl-Alt-F1 through F6) have a
>scrollback as long as you are at that console. You lose it when
>you change to another console, or back to X. (Try Shift-Page Up).
>This also works in xterm, and most other X terminal programs. The
>difference is that X terms don't lose the scrollback buffer when
>you change to another windows.

Hmm, thanks.  The console man pages seem to be lacking in info (man 4
console isn't even installed, but pretty short IAC).  Seems that screen
would still be the way to go.
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