[TriLUG] How to get to text terminal when Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't work?

[Nathan Yinger via TriLUG]

Chvt doesn't work when called from a terminal emulator, only when called
from text mode. Are there other commands to change terminal? I would have
assumed there was a command to go from GUI to text, but I haven't found it.

That documentation on Gentoo's wiki looks helpful, I'll give a try when I
get home.

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:49 AM Brian McCullough via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 09:38:06AM -0500, Triangle Linux Users Group
> discussion list wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 8:10 AM Nathan Yinger via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > That would work for starting in text and getting to graphical, but
> then how
> > > do you toggle from graphical back to text without rebooting? I'd like
> to be
> > > able to flip back and forth between a browser and a text terminal.
> > >
> >
> > Simple:  Reboot!
>
> One question that has been bothering me all along is: do you not have a
> Terminal ( XTerm, etc. ) application in your GUI?
>
> If you do, then you can issue any of these commands to switch to console
> mode, and, when needed, switch back to the GUI.
>
>
>
> Brian
>
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