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My screensaver unlock screen got frozen, and fishing around I found that I could use CtrlAltF2 to switch tty's and get a (text only) terminal login.

The helpful pages that mentioned this, didn't however mention how to get back to my normal ubuntu GUI session. How do I do that??

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  • I am facing the same problem on my laptop. Traditionally Cnt+Alt+F7 should switch to X, if running, however it does not –  Aug 10 '14 at 06:11

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Your graphical session is usually located at either Ctrl+Alt+F7 or Ctrl+Alt+F8. For me, running Ubuntu 13.04 it is F7.

A related, interesting read: What does "Ctrl + Alt + F12" do?

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Seth
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    It's F7 on 12.04 as well. – drevicko Sep 02 '13 at 23:47
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    Notably for me running Zorin (Ubuntu variant) within VirtualBox right-ctrl Fn does the same thing, which was a rude surprise when I tried to hit Ctrl-F2 to set a bookmark in my text editor! I'll stick with left-Ctrl I guess.. – Steve Midgley Sep 30 '14 at 02:55