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Date:      Mon, 03 May 1999 23:17:39 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        lore <lore@phile.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Swapping between consoles and X
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990503231739.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <372E109A.9FF3151@phile.com.au>

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On 03-May-99 lore wrote:
> More newbie questions.
> 
> I've got X running nicely now on my own box (after being so impressed
> with FreeBSD
> on the test box, I tossed Linux on mine). Afterstep is working well. But
> I find occasionally
> I'd like to use another another console temporarily without shutting X
> down. I haven't
> managed to find a way of doing this yet.

CTRL+ALT+Fn

switch back to X go to ALT+Fn where Fn is the xdm tty from /etc/ttys

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven                asmodai(at)wxs.nl
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