virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release

Yuri Pankov yuri.pankov at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 03:48:47 PST 2008


On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:45:12AM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote:
> joeb wrote:
>> 	When I am in xorg/xfce and do Ctrl+Alt+Fx it does in fact open the  
>> selected
>> virtual console.
>> But I can not find any way to return to the xorg/xfce desktop running 
>> in the
>> virtual console I left from.
>>  Alt+Fx does take me to the virtual console where x11/xfce is suppose 
>> to be,
>> but puts me in command line mode.
>> The command ps ax shows xorg/xfce is still running.
>>
>> How do I get back to the xorg/xfce desktop running in the virtual console I
>> left from?
>>
> You should be able to get back into Xorg with Alt F7 or F8. Does this
> not work?
>
>  Steve

X usually runs on ttyv8, so it should be Alt+F9.


HTH,
Yuri


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