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Re: [LUG] Opening a Terminal

 

On Ubuntu 8.04 it all works fine for me.

Ctrl + Alt + (F1-F6) all load into tty1-6 correctly and Ctrl + Alt +
F7 drops me back into a GNOME session.
Regards, Ross Bearman



On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:32:26 +0100, peter <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am not sure I have the terminology correct here, but I used to be able
>> to do away with the GUI and into one of a number of "terminals" by
>> pressing (I think) Ctrl, Alt, F2 to F10?
>>
>> This was use full when things get a bit screwed up as one can quite
>> elegantly shutdown.
>>
>> But I do not seem able to do it any longer?
>>
>> I am using Ubuntu, can anyone suggest what the key sequence is?
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Peter L-J
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> In my experience, if you boot Ubuntu with all the fancy graphical startup
> nonsense, then for some reason your "normal" terminals become unavailable.
> Editing your bootloader's config file (/boot/grub/menu.list in most normal
> Ubuntu cases) and removing the "splash" and "quiet" sections seem to work
> for me.
>
> Grant.
>
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