GDM to terminal to GDM again

Frustin · 03-16-2012, 07:23 AM

hi,

my desktop boots into gdm which is fine. but if i type <ctrl>-<alt>-F1 it doesnt work, i have to press F5. OK thats fine at least i get a shell. however if i want to revert back to X again by <ctrl>-<alt>-F7, it doesnt work.

EDIT - I tried all the function key's by the way

In fact the only way i seem to be able to go back to X is by /etc/init.d/gdm restart.

What config file should i be looking at to fix this?

RockDoctor · 03-17-2012, 08:52 AM

At a terminal or terminal window, ps aux | grep tty should show you on which tty X is running. On my current Fedora Rawhide system, X is running on tty2. <Alt>-F2 and <Ctl>-<Alt>-F2 both take me back to my X session.

ukiuki · 03-18-2012, 05:22 AM

Try just alt+F7 to go back to X.

Regards

RockDoctor · 03-18-2012, 08:35 AM

Fedora doesn't seem to run X on tty7 by default any more.

273 · 03-18-2012, 09:43 AM

I was under the impression that Fedora was now running X on tty1 so to get back to it you'd hit <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<F1> and that's also why. othing happens when you do that from X.
On my Debian system I can end up with X on tty7, 8 or 9 because Ive been messing around, did you try anything higher than 7 (assuming 1 isn't where X is)?

Frustin · 03-18-2012, 09:48 AM

I'll have a look at the tty X is running on but I pretty much tried all the f keys.

Frustin · 03-19-2012, 05:07 AM

this is the output of ps -aux | grep X

serverA:~# ps aux | grep X
root 3832 1.0 8.3 68084 43168 tty7 SLs+ 09:07 0:36 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7

so the tty is 7, which i knew anyway so i _should_ be able to ctrl-alt-F7 to get back to it from a terminal, but i cant.

RockDoctor · 03-19-2012, 08:16 AM

FWIW, here's my result:

Code:

~$ ps aux | grep X
root       738 15.9  1.2 153960 45976 tty2     Ss+  04:59  29:45 /usr/bin/X -auth /var/run/slim/slim.auth
a          783  0.0  0.0  95192  1364 ?        Sl   05:00   0:00 /usr/bin/lxsession -s LXDE -e LXDE
a          921  0.0  0.0  68660   776 ?        Ss   05:00   0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
a          932  0.4  0.3 299560 14576 ?        S    05:00   0:53 lxpanel --profile LXDE
a          933  0.1  0.2 454420 10772 ?        S    05:00   0:18 pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE
a         4422  0.0  0.0 109392   920 pts/0    S+   08:05   0:00 grep --color=auto X

Could it be a keyboard mapping problem, rahter than an X problem?

Frustin · 03-19-2012, 01:48 PM

I thought that was a eurika moment there about the keyboard because i remembered that in my OLD /etc/X11/xorg.conf file i had it set to spanish (the systems i am using are spanish) keyboard. Alas, it's set to US default.

Very annoying this problem because everything i test e.g. starting up and X application, has to be done remotely using export DISPLAY.