On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote: > Can I switch to another virtual terminal and start X Windows while I've > got something else going on in the first vterm, such as a download or a > dselect session, etc?
Yes. > And if I can, once I'm in X, how do I then get back to where I can see how > the download is progressing? Do I just Ctrl-Alt-F[key] back to the > original vterm, or can I bring up the process in an Xterm or something > similar? cntrl-alt-Fn works. I guess if you're root, you could ttysnoop in an xterm, but that's probably more trouble than it's worth ;) Note though that if you work your vc hard (playing squake for example), then when you hit alt-f7 to get back to X, then your xsession may reset itself... Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
