switching consoles

Toby Fisher toby at tjfisher.co.uk
Mon Dec 30 09:03:04 EST 2002


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On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, kaare wrote:

> Hi folks, I haven't been able to find out why this happens so any helps
> would be appreciated. I try to use the alt-1-2-3 keys to switch consoles
> both as root and as my user account however it won't move from tty 1, I
> really want to run multiple tasks but <shrugs>. Any ideas? and thanks
> for all the help with the speakup keyboard mapping stuff and dhcp,
> reinstalled the kernel and that is good and dhcp sometimes works with is
> good enough for now:)

Ok, the reason is because the correct keys to use are alt-f1/f2/f3/...
it's an easy mistake to make, I did it myself at first.

Good luck.

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