I didn't know I could do that

I didn’t know I could do that

Published 2007/08/24 Arch Linux , Linux , Ubuntu 4 Comments

Press CTRL+ALT+F1 for a tty screen.

Hold down ALT.

Press the left and right arrows.

Has that always been there?! How come nobody ever told me about that?

What’s great is if you don’t have X running and you just hold the keys down. You get this really freaky strobe effect that is bound to trigger seizures in a certain proportion of the population.

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1 MaNRo 2007/08/24 at 9:41 PM

Hey, neither do I!

Thanks for the tip

Regards,
MaNRo
2 bapoumba 2007/08/24 at 10:35 PM

I actually did, found out ages ago when I had problems with X-sessions in warty. I handled it with lynx in one tty and the reconfigure in the other one (I was very new to all of this). Since then I always set up centerICQ and irssi, just in case. Thanks for reminding me I have not done it yet on this computer ^^

This is also when I discovered nano, which I use almost exclusively.
3 chris 2007/08/25 at 6:50 AM

CTRL-ALT-F1 through F6 will give you different ttys. F7 will put you back at your X session (if you’re running X).

I didn’t know you could cycle through them with ALT and the arrow keys, though.
4 chris4585 2008/03/09 at 4:28 AM

i have a very funny story about this post, reading the title, and reading just the fisrt bit, i hit ctrl+alt+f1 without thinking.. i go into a tty no biggie.. how the crap do i get out??! well thanks to my knowledge of the terminal i was able to download weechat (i love weechat) and connect to freenode to ask how to get out of it, and i got a answer and thank god for cli based irc clients phew