The default terminal emulator for Enlightenment.Ī drop down terminal, similar to the consoles found in first person shooters. Light in resource usage, fast, and more feature-rich (tabs, transparency, Unicode, etc.).Ī terminal emulator arranging multiple terminals in one window, Python based, for GNOME. The default terminal emulator for KDE / Plasma. If an X session was started from a session manager on virtual console number 7, return to it by pressing Ctrl+ Alt+ F7, otherwise return to a graphical X session by going back to the virtual console on which it was started.Ī modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL-based terminal emulator written in Python and C. To switch to the next or previous VC in numerical order, press Alt+ ← or Alt+ →.įrom an X session, the Linux virtual consoles can be accessed with Ctrl+ Alt+ F1 through Ctrl+ Alt+ F6. The super key (' Windows' key on some keyboards, other times the Command or ' Apple' key) will toggle consoles.

Keyboard shortcuts are used to switch between VCs, and the chvt command exists if needed.įrom a text virtual console, it is possible to access the other VCs by pressing the Alt+ F1 through Alt+ F6 keys on the keyboard. X can be started in a virtual console from the shell, or from a display manager, in which case X is traditionally shown on virtual console number 7. Gentoo starts with six virtual consoles by default (this can be configured in inittab or with openrc-init). A virtual console ( VC), aka virtual terminal ( VT), allows for full-screen text-based interaction, via facilities provided directly by the kernel.

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