Originally posted by Hi-Angel
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Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to first virtual terminal number 1 (fullscreen console, no GUI)
Ctrl+Alt+F2 for virtual terminal number 2, and so on and so forth until you reach F6 or F7 as there is where most distros place the GUI.
You might have the GUI at F1 instead, too.
This stuff is great to troubleshoot a linux system when the GUI has locked up, as long as you know how to use command line, and maybe have some basic commandline text editors like nano (because the always-installed vim is not really user-friendly at all).
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