[gentoo-user] Re: X11 recovery ... somehow

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-05-06, tuxic@××××××.de <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote:

> I am running X11 with Nvidia-drivers 396.18-r1.
>
> From time to time I accidentally hit a key combo
> (ALT F*) and I am thrown to the LINUX console.
>
> Back in the years when one setups X11 by hand
> carefully inserting timings for the Cathod Ray Tube
> it was possible to swicth back with CTRL-ALT-F12
> (or was it ALT-F12).
>
> But this does not work for me.

It depends on the number of virtual consoles your system is
configured for. 6 VCs is common, so it would then be ALT-F7.

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