It's very simple.
When you're at a text console, you can change vts (virtual terminals) with ALT-F
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When you're in X, you have to press the CTRL key as well because once you're in X, X handles the keyboard, and not the "usual" text console handler. What X has bound to switch vts is CTRL-ALT-F
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So, when you first login at the text console, you're on VT1. You can switch to any of the other six preconfigured vts by pressing ALT-F1 through ALT-F6.
When X starts, it starts on VT7 by default. You can reach it by pressing ALT-F7. To get back to the text consoles (VTs 1-6) (for those who are a little slow) you have to press
CTRL-ALT-F1 (through F6).
If you're in runlevel 4 (starting X with KDM/XDM/GDM) then there will be
only one VT allocated, which is VT6, so only CTRL-ALT-F6 will get you out of X and to a functioning VT.
I've no idea WTF system people switching to X on VT2 are running, but it's not the way Slackware is usually configured.
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Originally Posted by alkos333
"I was told that Ctrl+F2 and Ctrl+F7 are the standard Linux key combinations that take you to the terminal and back to the windows manager. I was also told they should work by default on any WM."
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What you were told was just plain
wrong.
