GUI

[Terrence Enger]

At 15:44 2003-11-15 -0500, Keith Mastin wrote:
>
> > That brings up another thought, though.  Since my first
> > question on Thursday, I read something somewhere suggesting
> > that I can run a GUI and still have access to the text
> > consoles via F1, F2, et cetera.  I do not seem to be able to
> > do this using Slackware 9.0, XFree86 4.3.0 and KDE 3.1.  Now
> > that I know I get the GUI running, I wish I had paid more
> > attention to the fine points.  Any suggestions?
>
> Try Ctrl/Alt/F2 for the first text console. The same combo through F6
> should give you more consoles, with Ctrl/Alt/F7 bringing you back to your
> X gui session, and F1 running X

Thank you, Kieth.  I forgot the Ctrl modifier. Duh.

Terry.

>
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> Keith
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