From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X11 recovery ... somehow
Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 18:13:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pcn5vh$tjg$1@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180506124551.f4sbh5oh7ffg2man@solfire>
On 06/05/18 15:45, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running X11 with Nvidia-drivers 396.18-r1.
>
> From time to time I accidentally hit a key combo
> (ALT F*) and I am thrown to the LINUX console.
>
> 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).
You can't switch to the console with alt+fN. X11 to console requires
ctrl+alt+fN. From console to X11, it's just alt+fN.
On most modern installs, X11 runs on tty1 (when running systemd) or tty7
(when running openrc.) So just try alt+f1 or alt+f7 to go back to X11.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-06 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-06 12:45 [gentoo-user] X11 recovery ... somehow tuxic
2018-05-06 13:12 ` Alarig Le Lay
2018-05-06 13:28 ` [gentoo-user] X11 recovery Philip Webb
2018-05-06 14:15 ` Mick
2018-05-06 14:33 ` tuxic
2018-05-06 15:13 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2018-05-22 7:08 ` [gentoo-user] X11 recovery ... somehow J. Roeleveld
2018-05-22 14:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
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