In all fairness, console switching seems to vary a bit from distro-to-distro, from number of consoles available, to which one is used for the xserver when booting direct to the desktop, and whether a manually started xserver runs on the console that invoked it or a different one... There's probably a way to configure this, but I've never heard anyone talking about it. My understanding is the most common setups include: 12 consoles, autostarted xserver runs on tty1, manually started xserver runs on thee console that invoked startx. User has access to tty1-tty6, autostarted xserver runs on tty7, manually started xserver runson ttyn+6 where ttyn is the invoking console... I understand the main advantage of this setup is that if the xserver becomes unresponsie, you can easily kill it by switching back to the invoking console and ctrl+C the startx command. My own system is closer to the former... though I have no idea which console it would use if it booted straight into the desktop and I only have 10 consoles... I've also heard of people whose systems have 24 consoles, and for switching, left and right alt are considered distinct keys. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list