Question about linux (ctrl alt f2)?

[TracyL]

When you open a "console" widow you are running command line Linux. Linux can be fully run with out the GUI screens, in fact most servers never setup the GUI interface! The terminal "window" is very powerful and should be understood to really operate Linux to its full capacity.


Try these resources http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/cli.html , or http://linuxcommand.org/

Any good Linux book worth anything will include how to run "command line" Linux.

 

[tHt1]

ok so once i pressed ctrl alt f2 by accident, and i discovered this cool doslike thingy, and then just for the lolz, i tried opening emacs... AND IT WORKED! i tried writing C++ code in it, compiling it, running it, IT WORKED!

....but, I want to get to know more about this mysterious consolish window thingy

 

[ratter_of_the_shire]

It's a virtual terminal. Most distros initiate twelve of them (1-6) are console terminals (text-based) and (7-12) are graphical (if X is running)

crtl+alt+FX will switch to terminal X. wher X is between 1-12 (default starting terminal is usually 7)

It's reall handy if a full-screen program hangs or X is throwing a fit.