[sf-lug] Simple Question

[Ernest De Leon]

each terminal is numbered F1-Fwhatever...you just use
CTRL+ALT+Fwhatever to move around between them.

Ernest

On 16 Nov 2007 15:16:06 -0500, Blake Haggerty
<Blake.Haggerty at sapphire.com> wrote:
>
> Ok so this sounds like something i need to take up with Compiz....
>
> Qoute Rick:
>
>
> >Ctrl-Alt-F1 will take you out of the virtual console running X11
> >(which is usually #7, such that Ctrl-Alt-F7 take you back into that).
> >You're now at a virtual console login, and can login to your machine,
> >putting you at its text-mode command line. (If you loathe text-mode
> >command lines, you can regard that as fair warning, or whatever.)
>
> Onto a new question so when, I open another virtual console and I log into
> that. Lets say I fool around a little bit there, and then in that console I
> type invokerc.d gdm start and boom I am back to the Gnome Desktop, how do I
> go back to the other console I previously had open?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
> To: "sf-lug at linuxmafia.com" ;
> Sent: Nov 16, 2007 11:53:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] Simple Question
>
> Quoting Blake Haggerty (Blake.Haggerty at Sapphire.com):
>
> > I read this post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3709329 and
> > this certainly fixes the issue, I was just hoping for a command like a
> > alt-tab to jump out of the window and then re maximize it, rather than
> > disabling compiz...
>
> That would appear to be a question specific to your desktop environment
> or window manager. You might be a GNOME sufferer^Wuser? ;->
>
> (I'm not ordinarily a GNOME user. I believe the GNOME people these days
> wrap their desktop environment around the metacity window manager,
> though obviously you're promarily using a compiz 3D-fizzling-windows
> variant. You might want to consult GNOME/compiz/metacity documentation
> about non-mouse ways of changing between running windows.)
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