[ale] RH6: Switch to tty0 & back to Xwin

smnoldelinux at mediaone.net smnoldelinux at mediaone.net
Sun Oct 10 19:08:07 EDT 1999


Press Alt-F7.  This is the Xserver.  From your root login, you can do a
ps ax|grep X and see your X session still running.

- Scott

Mike Nolan wrote:
> 
> What have I done?
> 
> I was booting up into GUI interface, and was reading a Howto, where it said
> something like "you can switch back and forth into tty windows by pressing
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 or between different tty with Alt-F1, ..F2 and so on.
> 
> I did this and got a new terminal log in, which I logged in as root.
> 
> The problem is I can't seem to get back out of this mode, and I can't find
> the howto I was in, to read further about this.
> 
> If I do a complete shutdown and boot now, I get the same terminal login
> even though I have "Init default runlevel" set to 5.
> 
> I can run "startx" from this terminal window but why is it not booting to
> level 5?
> 
> How do I undo what I have done?
> 
> Thanks, (this is really a helpful list, unlike some others....)
> 
> Mike\n;
> Dallas, GA






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