software change of tty?

[Joseph E. Sacco, PhD]

Try ctrl-option-Fn

-Joseph
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On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 13:24 -0400, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
> One is supposed to be able to switch consoles with a keystroke 
> combination, usually clover-control-FkeyN IIRC. Sometimes this works, 
> sometimes not, and seems to have varied over the years going back to 
> the early Linux/PPC distributions I've run. It seems to vary from 
> machine to machine, and from time to time on one machine. (in this 
> case I'm not using the latest and greatest, we're talking older 604 
> machines with G3 upgrades, adb keyboards, YDL3/yum-updated, and 
> runlevel 3 only).
> 
> I'm less interested in hacking through and fixing the root cause. I'm 
> more interested if there is a workaround, like a command I can do in 
> one console that switches me to another. Does a suite of commands for 
> tty manipulation exist? I aproposed tty and googled a bit, but came 
> up blank.
> 
> 
> Stefan Jeglinski
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