On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:24:21 +0000 Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:19:46PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > Ctrl+Alt+F1...F12 > > For systems with virtual terminal support, these keystroke > > combinations are used to switch to virtual terminals 1 > > through 12, respectively. This can be disabled with the > > DontVTSwitch xorg.conf(5) file option. > > I doubt that stops e.g. chvt(1) from working. I'm sure there are a > myriad other ways to switch VT from within the X session, too. Not only that, but I don't think a day goes by when I don't switch to a VT to do CLI stuff, or even to kill X because X hung (not so much in Debian, but in other distros). I'd rather shut down the computer when I leave to go to the bathroom than set it up so I couldn't Ctrl+Alt+F3 to get a CLI environment any time I wanted. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140321122649.69d515f7@mydesk
