Ctrl-Alt-F7 doesn't restore logged-in X session

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Nov 2 17:53:56 UTC 2006


Andre Robatino wrote:
>  If I log into X, then go to a virtual console with Ctrl-Alt-F1, then
> back to X with Ctrl-Alt-F7, it doesn't restore my session, but puts me
> back at the login screen.  I can't find this mentioned in Bugzilla.  Can
> anyone else verify this, and which component should I report it under?
> 
Try using Ctrl-Alt-F8 and see if that works. I have not looked into
it, but I have found that sometimes X ends up using VC-8 instead of
VC-7. (Then again, I sometimes have an X server on more then one VC,
depending on what I am doing...)

Mikkel
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