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Taoist

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Registered: 2010-08-16

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] Terminals

Hello,
It has indeed been a somewhat trying day....I installed GDE without extras, leaving me with no terminal and no way to unpack tar files. Is there a way out of this or must I start all over with an install? I am hoping for the first choice. Put this at the top of the most stupid things I've done in all my years dealing with computers.

Last edited by Taoist (2010-08-17 10:36:38)

zenlord

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Registered: 2006-05-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Terminals

Switch to a virtual console: CTRL+F1 (F1 to F6) for text consoles and CTRL+F7 to switch back to your desktop (sometimes this is F8)

Zl.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Terminals

Switch to a virtual console: CTRL+F1 (F1 to F6) for text consoles and CTRL+F7 to switch back to your desktop (sometimes this is F8)

Zl.

The F-number depends on how many consoles do you open in your /etc/inittab. If you have only three, then the desktop running X will be under F4.
If you're in X and want to switch to text / framebuffer console, hit Ctrl-Alt-F# where # is the desired number - F2 is a good candidate if you want to untar a package, F1 if you need to kill X and nothing else is working.

schen

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Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 468

Re: [SOLVED] Terminals

Every virtual console is the same, though. No difference between tty1 or tty2(except for the name)