Turns out linux has several consoles going at once. From within my Gnome session I can press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and bring up console one. Gnome is running on console 7 so Ctrl-Alt-F7 brings me back into Gnome. Ctrl-Alt-F1 through Crtl-Alt-F7 work. Notice that Crtl-Alt-F1 takes you to TTY1 and Ctrl-Alt-F6 to TTY6. Having a full terminal to run from is handy when the session on TTY7 (Gnome) gets messed up some how.
Ctrl-Alt-F8 brings up some text, maybe system messages or something but it doesn't look like a command line I can do something with.
A little research suggest nothing runs on Terminals 8-12 initially.
September 24, 2009
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