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What are some common keyboard shortcuts for Linux?

April 26, 2017common keyboard linux shortcuts

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What are some common keyboard shortcuts for Linux?

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These shortcuts are from the Linux Newbie Administrator Guide by Stan, Peter and Marie Klimas. Switch to the first text terminals. Under Linux you can have several (6 in standard setup) terminals opened at the same time. This is a keyboard shortcut, which means: “press the control key and the alt key, hold them. Now press . Release all keys.” (n=1..6) Switch to the nth text terminal. (The same could be accomplished with the rarely used command chvt n. “chvt” stands for “change virtual terminal”). In text terminal (outside X), you can also use (the key is not needed). tty Print the name of the terminal in which you are typing this command. If you prefer the number of the active terminal (instead of its name), it can be printed using the command fgconsole (=”foreground console”). Switch to the first GUI terminal (if X-windows is running on the 7th terminal, where it typcially is). (n=7..12) Switch to the