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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xcfe4 -- can't return to X after ctrl+alt+(f1-f6,f12)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:17:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909021317.14626.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909020203.30822.wonko@wonkology.org>

On Wednesday 02 September 2009 02:03:30 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Maxim Wexler writes:
> > If, after running startx, I move to another terminal using
> > ctr+alt+(f1-f6,f12), when I return to the X window, ctrl+alt+f7, I see
> > nothing but a blank terminal, not even a cursor. I have to navigate to
> > wherever I started X, hit ctrl-c and run startx again.
>
> This may be a stupid idea, but did you try Ctrl-Alt-F8?

Not at all stupid, it's actually a very good tip :-)

I've seen gnome do similar stupid things when switching back to X from a virt 
term

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-02  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-01 22:28 [gentoo-user] xcfe4 -- can't return to X after ctrl+alt+(f1-f6,f12) Maxim Wexler
2009-09-01 23:31 ` dev-random
2009-09-02 15:05   ` Maxim Wexler
2009-09-02  0:03 ` Alex Schuster
2009-09-02 11:17   ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-09-02 15:08   ` Maxim Wexler

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