[Gambas-user] system has hung a lot recently.

[BB]

On 13/1/23 12:47 am, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> On 1/12/23 06:30, Tim Dickson via User wrote:
>> usually,as you say alt-F1 to alt-F6 are vt's and alt-F7 is for 
>> graphical gui's
>> however, more recently, some window session managers, - think sddm 
>> are often configured to re-use the tty1 (alt-F1)
>> so it is worth adding that to the list when attempting to switch back 
>> to the gui.
>> regards, Tim
>>
>> On 11/01/2023 21:24, BB wrote:
>>>
>>> Alt-F7 or Alt-F8 should take you back to the desktop
>>>
>>> Alt-F1 to Alt-F6 are virtual terminals, the desktop usually runs on 
>>> vt7 but it can vary. Read up on /etc/inittab
>>>
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>
> Interesting. On my openSUSE (w/ KDE) system, it is Ctrl-Alt-F1 through 
> F6 that switches to a TTY. Alt-F1 brings up the application menu.
>
> Yes, from the X session it is usually Ctrl+Alt+F1 to F6 that takes you 
> to a vt  but once there you can switch to another vt or back to the X 
> session you dont (usually) need the Ctrl+
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