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

Andre Robatino andre at bwh.harvard.edu
Thu Nov 2 18:22:57 UTC 2006


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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
>   
  Doesn't work.  Anyway, I'm pretty sure that it's supposed to be using 
VC-7, since that does at least get back to the X login screen.




More information about the users mailing list