How do I exit the console? The commands Ctrl+Alt+Fx dont work

drywall_dan

How I got there: I don't have a precise idea, I think it is a problem with updates. First I had problem with Alsa mixer. My sound didnt work when I wanted to watch a video. Each time I needed to reload alsa for the computer to emit sound. After I have some updates to do, the computer would shut down and I had to turn it back on, but no update was installed and it asked again every time I turned on the PC. This must have been going on for about...

Originally asked by Chaise on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The keyboard combinations to move to a different virtual console are Ctrl + Alt + Fx if you are in the graphical environment, and both Alt + Fx and Ctrl + Alt + Fx if you are in a text console. For example, if you are on the graphical desktop, you can move to virtual console 4 with Ctrl + Alt + F4 . Your graphical desktop runs on virtual console 2, so you can switch back with Alt + F2 . On Ubuntu, the login manager runs on virtual console 1, the graphical desktop on virtual console 2, and 3 to 7 are text consoles.

Full answer by vanadium: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/1567983 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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