I'm using 12.04, I accidentally used Ctl-Alt-F9 and got a black full screen with command line cursor (Terminal). How can I go back to the normal Unity screen?
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Another way, just press Alt + right or left arrow couple times, until you get out of gui. Ubuntu by default has like 6 black screens (ttys), and 7th is the gui – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Feb 04 '15 at 09:28
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Press Ctl + Alt + F7, that is the default graphical tty.
Linux systems use to have 12 terminals: 6 for text (Ctl + Alt + F1 to F6) and 6 for graphical (Ctl + Alt + F7 to F12)
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1To provide a little more information, Ctl+Alt+F1-F6 are your tty terminals. I'm not sure the purpose of F9. desgua has the right answer, though. +1 – JasCav May 02 '12 at 00:23
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6Note that Ctrl is only needed if you're in the GUI; once you hit a text console, you can switch between them with just Alt+F1-F7. – roadmr May 08 '12 at 22:42
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Ctrl+Alt+F7 did not work for me, here are the alternatives:
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Fnbutton, tryCtrl+Alt+Fn+F7 - if all fails, try the command:
chvt 7
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doesn;t work in my case! please check this https://askubuntu.com/questions/1186897/ubuntu-guest-os-in-vmware-shows-a-blank-screen-if-ctrlaltdel-key-is-pressed – Simple Fellow Nov 07 '19 at 10:07
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Ctrl+Alt+F1helped me to return GUI back on Ubuntu 18.04 when I accidentally pressedCtrl+Alt+F9. – Yamashiro Rion Jul 12 '20 at 08:14 -
You need press additional because your keyboard has other Function given to the Fn's keys like volume, screen refreshing and brightness settings I do guess. – Ziggy Witkowski Aug 01 '20 at 16:06