180506 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > I am running X11 with Nvidia-drivers 396.18-r1.
Here it's X11 + Nvidia 392.42 . > From time to time I accidentally hit a key combo ALT F* > and I am thrown to the LINUX console. Yes, it does happen to the best of us (smile). > Back in the years when one setups X11 by hand > carefully inserting timings for the Cathod Ray Tube > it was possible to swicth back with CTRL-ALT-F12 (or was it ALT-F12). > But this does not work for me. I've never heard of that one & it doesn't work here. What has always worked is Control-Alt-F7 , if you started from TTY1 ; IIRC if you start with TTY2, then 'startx', you come back via C-A-F8 etc. Perhaps you could test that & report back. > 1) For debugging purposes I would like to get a fully working switch > between the Linux console and X11 back and forth. > 2) If that is not possible see below. But! > If I was accidentally thrown to the Linux console > by my own eloborated usage of the keyboard (hrrrrmmmm) > I am able to do the following: > Login as myself (console login) and do another startx. > This will start a new X11 session. > Is it possible somehow to "take over" the original X11 session, > which is still running in the background > to cleanly ending the tasks running and waiting for my input? I suspect there is a way to do that, but I don't know how. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
