I'm annoyed. I just lost some code I was typing because I was trying to hit ctrl-alt-shift-5 (regexp replace in Emacs), but accidentally hit ctrl-alt-shift-F5.

This dumped me out of gnome and took me to the plaintext terminal.

Now, I've been on Linux for just a few months and haven't seen that yet. With no GUI, of course I couldn't look online to see what to do. So I had no choice but to reboot

So, two questions:

1. Where do I change that ctrl-alt-shift-F5 key command? It's a very easy slip of the finger and chances are I'll do that again.

2. If it does dump me out of my x session, is there a way to go back to the existing session with all the apps and data intact? Or is everything catastrophically gone because of an accidental keystroke?

Thanks,
James

ctrl alt f7 would have put you back into your gui tty

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Ctrl-alt-F7... so it does. Thanks!

Since I now know how to recover, no worries about changing the keybinding.