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I'd like to go to a terminal so I can kill processes jamming my windowing session. (I would then return with CTRL-ALT-F7.) But CTRL-ALT-F1 just locks the screen; no terminal.

CTRL-ALT-Fn-F1 similarly does not work.

What am I doing wrong? How do I get the effect of CTRL-ALT-F1?

(This is a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming with Ubuntu 18.04)

Joshua Fox
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CTRL-ALT-F3 to get to terminal; ALT-F2 to return to GUI. (See this answer.) I have not yet verified if this has a higher priority that would override a stuck windowing system, thus allowing me to get to a terminal, then kill the problematic process, comparable to Windows CTRL-ALT-DEL.

Joshua Fox
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