From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Oct 26 16:21:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from kwanon.research.canon.com.au (kwanon.research.canon.com.au [203.12.172.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996DF37B4C5 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bellmann.research.canon.com.au (bellmann.research.canon.com.au [10.5.0.3]) by kwanon.research.canon.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113848A891; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elph.research.canon.com.au (elph.research.canon.com.au [203.12.174.253]) by bellmann.research.canon.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127578B11; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:13:18 +1100 (EST) Received: from elph.research.canon.com.au (elph.research.canon.com.au [10.2.0.253]) by elph.research.canon.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D8FF; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:20:08 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:20:08 +1100 (EST) From: Iain Templeton To: "Youngman, Neil" Cc: "'doc@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD FAQ - Incorrect answer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Youngman, Neil wrote: Well, I don't recall seeing another answer so... > The answer to the question "Q: How do I access the virtual consoles from X?" > is incorrect, at least misleading, for FreeBSD 3.4 > > It says "you may use only the Alt- function key to switch to another virtual > terminal or back to X Window. You do not need to also press the Ctrl key." > > I read that as meaning that to get back to an X session on virtual console 1 > I just need to use Alt-F1. That does not work. Alt-F1 just gives me the > underlying text console with messages from the X session. To get the X > session itself back I have to use Ctrl-Alt-F9! > Well, the reason for that is that although you started the X session from console 1 (via startx or whatever), the X session really runs on the first unused virtual console, which in your case was console 9. Whilst it doesn't quite say it, the previous FAQ entry implies that X doesn't run on the virtual console that you start it from. Maybe this needs to be stated explicitly. If I get bored I might run up a patch for this perhaps. You also didn't need to press Ctrl in this case. Iain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message