In article ,
Robert Bernstein wrote:

: On some Unix machines one can flip out of the X display into a
: character based console login by pressing a Ctrl-Alt-function key
: combination or some variation thereof.
:
: Is there a way to accomplish this on an Irix 6.5 Indigo2 system?

left-control left-shift F12 KP/ should do it. Pretty hard to hit that by
accident.

XDM will probably restart the Xsgi X server for you, though. You're probably
better off doing a "killall xdm".


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In article , Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler writes:
> In article ,
> Robert Bernstein wrote:
>
> : On some Unix machines one can flip out of the X display into a
> : character based console login by pressing a Ctrl-Alt-function key
> : combination or some variation thereof.
> :
> : Is there a way to accomplish this on an Irix 6.5 Indigo2 system?
>
> left-control left-shift F12 KP/ should do it. Pretty hard to hit that by
> accident.
>
> XDM will probably restart the Xsgi X server for you, though. You're probably
> better off doing a "killall xdm".

I haven't used that in quite some time, but isn't /usr/gfx/stopgfx (or
something similar what the OP is looking for? This command essentially
kills the current X session and the Xsgi server, and drops you back to the
framebuffer console you can see e.g. during the boot process.

Akos Balazs

Akos Balazs wrote:

> In article , Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler writes:
> > In article ,
> > Robert Bernstein wrote:
> >
> > : On some Unix machines one can flip out of the X display into a
> > : character based console login by pressing a Ctrl-Alt-function key
> > : combination or some variation thereof.
> > :
> > : Is there a way to accomplish this on an Irix 6.5 Indigo2 system?
> >
> > left-control left-shift F12 KP/ should do it. Pretty hard to hit that by
> > accident.
> >
> > XDM will probably restart the Xsgi X server for you, though. You're probably
> > better off doing a "killall xdm".
>
> I haven't used that in quite some time, but isn't /usr/gfx/stopgfx (or
> something similar what the OP is looking for? This command essentially
> kills the current X session and the Xsgi server, and drops you back to the
> framebuffer console you can see e.g. during the boot process.
>
> Akos Balazs

the op used 'flip out' which usually implies 'flipping back in' all these methods
do not achieve this. so essentially the answer is no.