On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:31 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > David Niemi wrote: > > > OK, Ctrl-Alt-F1'd logged in as root, killed gcalculator PID 30750, and > > typed "exit" which logged me out and I am now back at a login prompt, > > how do I get back to my running X session. > > > > Kinda dumb question I know but I never needed to do this before so > > didn't learn it yet! > > I remember well the exact same puzzle :-0 > > Ctrl-Alt-F7 > Yup that worked, I didn't want to try finding this by trial and error, having enough fun with whatever I did to get the "+" sign. What causes that? Also, for future reference what is it called when one Ctrl-Alt-F1's or Ctrl-Alt-F7's?