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180506 tuxic@××××××.de wrote: |
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> I am running X11 with Nvidia-drivers 396.18-r1. |
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Here it's X11 + Nvidia 392.42 . |
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> From time to time I accidentally hit a key combo ALT F* |
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> and I am thrown to the LINUX console. |
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Yes, it does happen to the best of us (smile). |
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> Back in the years when one setups X11 by hand |
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> carefully inserting timings for the Cathod Ray Tube |
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> it was possible to swicth back with CTRL-ALT-F12 (or was it ALT-F12). |
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> But this does not work for me. |
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I've never heard of that one & it doesn't work here. |
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What has always worked is Control-Alt-F7 , if you started from TTY1 ; |
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IIRC if you start with TTY2, then 'startx', you come back via C-A-F8 etc. |
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Perhaps you could test that & report back. |
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> 1) For debugging purposes I would like to get a fully working switch |
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> between the Linux console and X11 back and forth. |
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> 2) If that is not possible see below. But! |
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> If I was accidentally thrown to the Linux console |
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> by my own eloborated usage of the keyboard (hrrrrmmmm) |
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> I am able to do the following: |
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> Login as myself (console login) and do another startx. |
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> This will start a new X11 session. |
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> Is it possible somehow to "take over" the original X11 session, |
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> which is still running in the background |
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> to cleanly ending the tasks running and waiting for my input? |
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I suspect there is a way to do that, but I don't know how. |
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