Christopher Barry wrote: > > I read some email in the Debian list a few minutes ago that said you can > switch to a text mode virtual console from X by using Control-Alt-Fn and > thought "cool, I always wondered if there was a way to do that... I > think I'll try it right now!" So I did and then I could not for the life > of me figure out how to get back into X. No manpages, info pages, > /usr/doc wildcard greps etc gave me anything useful. As a last resort I > removed the lock file and tried to isolate and SIGKILL xinit and > WindowMaker and every X related process I could find and I still > couldn't get back into X by restarting it, so I ended up *rebooting*. > So, you guys can probably figure out what my question is.... :)
Alt-F7 should return you to the VC that's running X. > Also, one other question. Is it possible to start two seperate X > sessions, so that you could say have one X session running WindowMaker > and the other one running E or something else, and switch between them > via control-alt-fn or whatever? I haven't a clue. > Thanks, > Christopher > Kent