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progjm Just Arrived
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 12:32 am Post subject: Text mode |
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I am fairly new to linux. I have Red Hat 9 going right to the gui when it starts. How do I switch to text mode. I know how to get to a terminal, I want to get to text mode. Any help would be awsome. Thanks
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White Scorpion Just Arrived
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 12:34 am Post subject: |
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<ctrl>+<alt>+<F2> if i'm not mistaken.. normally i do this automatically, so i do not use this so often...
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progjm Just Arrived
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 12:37 am Post subject: |
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Thanks that was it
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asusanator Just Arrived
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progjm Just Arrived
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:14 am Post subject: |
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Now in the windowsx the <alt><CTRL> <F2> to get into text but when I try to type startx to get back It say it is already running, now keep in mind I am new at this. What do I need to do to get back to the gui
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asusanator Just Arrived
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:26 am Post subject: |
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All your doing with that key combo is switching to a text window you are not closeing the x server.
[ctrl]+[alt]+[F7] should do the trick.
KDE
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progjm Just Arrived
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:32 am Post subject: |
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Thanks that did the trick. Appreciate it
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arken Just Arrived
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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Most distributions I've seen set up 6 (F1 - F6) virtual terminals that you can access by pressing <ALT-F#> in terminal mode or <CTRL-ALT-F#> within XWindows. F7 - F12 (and possilby more) can be used to access several running instances of XWindows. I usually have 2 instances running and have used at most 3, so I'm not sure how many more instances you can create. You can usually kill the XWindows process by pressing <CTRL-ALT-Backspace> (Take note that it is not ctrl-alt-del, and that it kills the process and is not a clean exit).
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