Change Linux Fedora Virtual Terminal and Graphical Desktop
Change Linux Fedora Virtual Terminal and Graphical Desktop
How change from one virtual terminal to other virtual terminal or to change back to graphical desktop? The Linux as we know provide multiuser and multitasking operating system that can enable us to work on or using the system with more than one user and execute more than one task or using more then one application in same time... the example below show how you can change to different Linux virtual terminal and change back to your Linux graphical desktop.
Linux Fedora Virtual Terminal and Graphical Desktop (Fedora 11 version)
Press the keyboard key and see the virtual terminal change, on Fedora 10 or newer version you can use Ctrl+Alt+F2 to F6 key to change between virtual terminal and use the Ctrl+Alt+F1 for GUI desktop. The example on change virtual terminal below tested on Fedora 11.
Ctrl - Alt - F1 <-- Graphical User Interface (GUI) login
Ctrl - Alt - F2 <-- Virtual terminal on tty2 (text base login)
Ctrl - Alt - F3 <-- Virtual terminal on tty3 (text base login)
Ctrl - Alt - F4 <-- Virtual terminal on tty4 (text base login)
Ctrl - Alt - F5 <-- Virtual terminal on tty5 (text base login)
Ctrl - Alt - F6 <-- Virtual terminal on tty6 (text base login)
Linux Fedora Virtual Terminal and Graphical Desktop (Fedora 9 and other lower version)
Press the keyboard key and see the virtual terminal change, for Fedora 9 and other lover version of Fedora... you can use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to F6 key to change between virtual terminal and use Ctrl+Alt+F7 to get the graphical user interface (GUI) desktop. The example below tested on Fedora 9.
Ctrl - Alt - F1 <-- Virtual terminal tty1 text base login
Ctrl - Alt - F2 <-- Virtual terminal tty2 text base login
Ctrl - Alt - F3 <-- Virtual terminal tty3 text base login
Ctrl - Alt - F4 <-- Virtual terminal tty4 text base login
Ctrl - Alt - F5 <-- Virtual terminal tty5 text base login
Ctrl - Alt - F6 <-- Virtual terminal tty6 text base login
Ctrl - Alt - F7 <-- Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 key to change to Desktop Graphical User Interface (GUI) login
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