What is "+" on mouse cursor?

[David Niemi]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 23:15 -0500, Bill Perkins wrote:
> Derek Martin wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:45:21AM -0500, David Niemi wrote:
> > 
> >>Also, for future reference what is it called when one Ctrl-Alt-F1's or
> >>Ctrl-Alt-F7's? 
> > 
> > 
> > It's called switching "virtual consoles" (or VCs for short).  By
> > default on Fedora (and I think most Linux systems) there are usually 6

> IIRC, Shift+Ctrl+Fx will access more consoles from a normal text 
> console. Don't know how/if it works under X; I've found 6 consoles to be 
> more than adequate.
> 
Thanks for all the info on the virtual consoles, now for some reading.