[Techtalk] linux on ibook

Rebecca J. Walter rjp at mail.tele.dk
Fri Oct 18 21:02:39 EST 2002


On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 20:42, pheret at pheret.com wrote:
> hi all.  i have a question:  does anyone know how to switch virtual
> terminals using linux on an ibook?  i have an old tangerine machine that i
> just got linux running on (which is fabulous -- i have not read a book or
> a magazine or even gone on my desktop since i got this thing -- why move
> when i can ssh?) and so far everything is good, i have figured out most of
> the keystrokes i need (it's a bit different, as it's a laptop) but i
> cannot for the life of me figure out how to switch virtual terminals (not
> in x).  the normal ctrl-f1, etc., does not work . . . any clues?
> 

on my ibook2, it would be ctrl-alt-fn-f1.  My alt is on my apple key. 
If you have an altgr key, that might be your alt.




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