I thought that was normal. It happens to me even in Ubuntu. I freaked the first time it happened but I discovered that Ctrl + Alt + F7 takes me back. My session is still there.
- Joan On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Richard Elkins <richard.elk...@gmail.com>wrote: > There are emergencies (E.g. hosed desktop) when one would like to gather > evidence and find out who is doing what to whom -or- who is waiting for > whom. I have always used Ctrl-Alt-Fn to break out of desktops for this > purpose. I would have found this quite helpful in writing up a bug report > yesterday. > > Unfortunately, it seems that I cannot do this in Xubuntu which is, of > course, XFCE4-based - at least in the later releases. > > When I press Ctrl-Alt-F1/2/3/4/5/6, my keyboard and mouse are no longer > functional although the screen is still there. Is the screen hiding the > tty login prompt? My getty sessions are running as evidenced by `ps ax | > grep getty` in a terminal window. > > Fortunately, when I press F7, I am taken back to normal desktop operation. > > Could anyone shed some light on this? I really would like to learn what > component(s) are causing this anomalous behavior. And, I'd like to fix > this if possible. Again, if it is my @#$%^&!!! Intel D2550MUD2 > motherboard, I am going to sue Intel into insolvency! (-: > > Thanks, > > Richard > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel> > -- Joan Advincula ReMo <https://reps.mozilla.org/u/jadvincula/> | http://theorangeskipper.wordpress.com @iamMJae <http://twitter.com/iamMJae> | http://jauntyskipper.wordpress.com http://knightingale.wordpress.com
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