[ale] Newbie question.

[James P. Kinney III]

You may have jumped to a different virtual terminal (by default Fedor
and others ship with 6 plus one for X)

If in X, get back to a console with <ctl><alt><F1> (or <F2>). If in
console and you've lost the X screen go back to X with <ctl><F7> (or
<F8>)

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 20:29 -0400, William Oakes wrote: 
> I am running fedora core 5 on a duel boot WinXP-fedora box.  I am presently
> in fedora as root at the init 3 level.  I made the mistake of typing <shift>
> X on the command line and wound up looking at a black screen with only the x
> cursor showing.
> 
> I have tried just about everything I can think of to get out of it (i.e.
> <Esc>, <ctrl> c, <alt> F1 etc, <ctrl><alt><del>) without rebooting the box
> and crashing Linux.
> 
> I would appreciate any suggestions or procedures to remedy this situation.
> 
> TIA, Bill... 
> 
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