From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mij2g-0005ux-7V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:10:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79487E08F8; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com (mail-fx0-f211.google.com [209.85.220.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFAEE08F8 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so783413fxm.34 for ; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:18:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=DEBoW+HXyxcs8So3o4xcXUS8ml8ytEsSEcn6RaBjhZQ=; b=onHzZgNecLW6mCqWiZucjYy6ki+iT8//LDJ96c9aryHXYN+fkBliYOy24VkkHXp8/M tRsTVxOFLd9P5wo9CCohz6qm2V6XrO0B9rEnJXrRObeFBilcRiE9U8+weLaO223GWB2f ZLmF54kLpKRkNZkoR8C1upm/g3yDKjjpzA+VQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=l6dwwhLLm1oPe6Op0yt6d+4ywOf9yKV7j31TT1/WHjWnpoV1ZbCWfTAOuVylMRrfQH JEYTc9siAmKUPZoMTGzuuJsJFl0KvMmFZe57mBEMoRRplkmFnbplRwaYHY5S52MafQqm HckZ2SaqU1twS2uM2KHKlVb1fLR5+g21M4xYA= Received: by 10.86.210.32 with SMTP id i32mr2376967fgg.60.1251890323464; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-140-68-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm912036fge.11.2009.09.02.04.18.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:18:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <200909020203.30822.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <200909020203.30822.wonko@wonkology.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909021317.14626.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 73bfc371-3a88-4a2d-b0a2-5431e1bf4e03 X-Archives-Hash: 01e93e532465521cbb8fef60c898dd85 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