Changing VT using a command line ?

Sat Feb 2 15:43:07 UTC 2008

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 13:59:43 +0100
Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:

> So I was thinking, is there some linux command I could type at the
> command line, that allows to switch VT ?

Yup. 

chvt 1
chvt 7

If you see
"Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console", you can use sudo

sudo chvt 1
sudo chvt 7

... and so on.

Peter

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