Console switching

[Samuel Flory]

nathan r. hruby wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 03:08 PM, Samuel Flory wrote:
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>>  I can't seem to console switch on the commandline with my ibook.   
>> No combination of shift/ctrl/option/...  with alt-F2 seems to work.   
>> I can do it from X, but not from the command line.  The only way I've 
>> found it the switchto command which is rather useless when I'm hung 
>> waiting for an nfs mount to time out.
>>
>
> Option + [left|right] should switch through the tty's on the cosole.  

Thanks that works.

> i forget the magic to do this if you're in an Xsession on YDL...

Shift-function-alt/option-ctrl-F# works for me.