[Gllug] how to access virtual consoles?

[Leslie Till]

Andrew Halliwell wrote:
>>On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Dermot Moynihan wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I keep reading how if I press ALT+F1 or any F key up to F6 I can get virtual
>>>consoles.
>>>At the moment when I load SUSE 8.1 from a boot floppy (GRUB) it takes me
>>>straight to a login screen and then I end up in KDE. When I hit ALT and the F
>>>keys in here I just get menus.
>>>So, I'm assuming the ALT F thing is available somewhere before KDE.
>>>Basically, I want to learn the command line without having to wait for KDE to
>>>do it's thing every time I boot up.
>>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Shirt+Alt+Fn works from X...
> 
> 
> I don't have a shirt key :)
> I think you mean CTRL...
> 
You may even look nicer in a shift.


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