Fedora 10 ctf-alt-F2

Patrick Dupre pd520 at york.ac.uk
Fri Dec 5 10:13:43 UTC 2008


On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:

> Em Qui 04 Dez 2008, Patrick Dupre escreveu:
>> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Patrick Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Since I moved from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10, I lost the functionality
>>>> of the ctl-alt-Fx in a X session.
>>>> In text mode every works fine, but from a X session, it breaks
>>>> jsut the session.
>>>>
>>>> thank for your help.
>>>
>>> Hmm. switching to virtual consoles tty2 through tty6 works for me
>>> using the keyboard shortcuts.
>>>
>>> in F10  runlevel 5  the X session now starts on the first virtual
>>> terminal which is mapped to ALT-CTRL-F1 but the second virtual
>>> terminal at ALT-CTRL-F2 should still exist as a console login.
>>> run this command: ps aux |grep mingetty
>>> you should see mingetty running on tty2 through tty6   by default
>>> if you started in runlevel 5.
>>
>> this is correct, but I start in runlevel3
>> I log in tty1, then startx
>> Then if I make Ctl-Atl-F2, it scratches the X session.
>
> What does this mean exactly? You can't change to TTY2 or you change to
> TTY 2 and after that you're unable to get back to the X session?
Yes I can go to tty2, but at the same time it breaks the X session
(I cannot go back of course by doing Ctl-Alt-F7, ie, when I try do
do it, I am back in tty1, where I started x, in tty mode).
I am using gnome

> Also, do you use Gnome or KDE?
>
> []'s
> Marcelo
>
>

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