Daniel Hiller
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I'm a software engineer with more than 20 years of work experience.I strive to create software that is useful for people so they can do stuff that matters.
This is just a quick note on how to switch to command line tty on Fedora Linux. This was tested on Fedora 31.
Today my system seemed frozen, so I wanted to switch to console tty, but none of the shortcuts seemed to work anymore. I used ALT+CTRL+F2 at first, that was what I remembered I had used before on other window systems.
In hindsight I guess it just was a combination of impatience and the system not reacting directly that nearly made me perform a hard switch off. So, to avoid this again, when using Fedora 31 with Gnome and Wayland, use the following:
| Shortcut | Action observed |
|---|---|
| ALT + CTRL + F3 … ALT + CTRL + F6 | Switch to console TTY3 .. TTY6 |
| ALT + CTRL + F2 | Switch to current window manager session |
| ALT + CTRL + F1 | Switch to login screen / create new session (?) |
Note: have patience, i.e. wait a couple of seconds, the system might not react directly if a process hammers it.
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