Switching virtual terminals

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 11:12 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 10:27 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > I think it's Just Ctrl-, not Alt-Ctrl-, from text console land.
> > Or just Alt-. But anyway, only one of the modifiers, not both. 
> 
> It's Alt + function keys.  When in the text consoles, you can ALT+F2
> or
> CTRL+ALT+F2 on every computer that I've tried it with.  I'm not on
> Fedora 9 at the moment to check if that still works both ways, but I'm
> fairly sure I've CTRL+ALT+Fx a few times back and forth, on Fedora 9,
> over the last few days.

Correct. From an X session it's Ctrl-Alt-Fn, from a text console it's
the same, or simply Alt-Fn.

poc