Ctrl-Alt-F1 or F7 to go back to GUI?

[recondite]

When I open a tty (Ctrl-Alt-F2) then go back to my GUI sometimes I need to use Ctrl-Alt-F1 and sometimes I need Ctrl-Alt-F7. Why? The lack of consistency is a bit annoying. Am I doing something wrong?

[woelfman10]

I get that too. I switch between cli ttys using alt-<left|right arrow key>. If you're at tty2 hold in alt and hit the left arrow a few times and you'll hit the gui, and you won't overshoot it since the shortcut doesn't work once you're in the gui.

Granted a fix would be ideal, but hopefully this helps you in the meantime.

[Min]

I think it will first in f1, initial shell, upon init. But upon certain condition(maybe restarting X.org), it will be moved to 7 afterward. Just my guess... And probably wrong as well :P

[pankajp]

This has been a problem since quite some time. I've even filed a bug report against it
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503267

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This has been a problem since quite some time. I've even filed a bug report against it
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503267

[recondite]

Using ALT and an arrow keys works as suggested above. Also, I noted that, as someone mentioned, it does start out in F1 and then later moves to F7, then stays there. The switch to F7 might occur due to a crash or problem of some kind in F1, I can't recall.

I will mark this solved. Anyway, it was a problem in F13. Not sure if it is still a problem in F16.