Tbf I’d take a pic of the command, or failing that, write it down, before switching.
My issue is “am noob, how login? And how switch back?” Lol. This post made me realize I need to learn how to do that now before I’m faced with a situation where I have to, so that’s good!
Got it now! For some reason, the internet seems to think my GUI is on tty7, but it’s on tty2, and on tty1 I only get a blinking cursor, but on the rest (besides the GUI) I get the “sysname login:” prompt. I’m sure this is a fedora thing but I can’t find out why it switched, or why tty1 shows up different.
Explains why “switch to tty2” has never worked for me though, because I was already on it and I need to switch to 3!
Edit: okay comment below says tty1 is SDDM. What’s that? Idfk. It’s a “graphical display manager” but all I see is a lone blinky line that seems fairly ungraphical. Also, tty7 shows the same blinky line, also SDDM? The world may never know. man ssdm seems to indicate it’s a user called sddm, whom I need to add to the video group and then I’ll see… something? Maybe?
I remember the “switch to tty2” thing too, from old glory Ubuntu days (I mean decade ago at least). Nowadays when I switch to a different tty, it feels like stuff is assigned randomly. Honestly I never got that deep into it to study and don’t understand it fully myself. So don’t ask me about details, I would probably look goofy then.
SDDM is a popular graphical display manager used by KDE as the default, because their previous house made display manager didn’t support Wayland. Gnome has GDM (do they still?) and there are bunch of others. You can switch the display manager too, I think KDE even offers builtin option to change, but I’m not sure right now. The name display manager is a bit confusing, because its about your user login with graphical interface.
Tbf I’d take a pic of the command, or failing that, write it down, before switching.
My issue is “am noob, how login? And how switch back?” Lol. This post made me realize I need to learn how to do that now before I’m faced with a situation where I have to, so that’s good!
+1
Got it now! For some reason, the internet seems to think my GUI is on tty7, but it’s on tty2, and on tty1 I only get a blinking cursor, but on the rest (besides the GUI) I get the “sysname login:” prompt. I’m sure this is a fedora thing but I can’t find out why it switched, or why tty1 shows up different.
Explains why “switch to tty2” has never worked for me though, because I was already on it and I need to switch to 3!
Edit: okay comment below says tty1 is SDDM. What’s that? Idfk. It’s a “graphical display manager” but all I see is a lone blinky line that seems fairly ungraphical. Also, tty7 shows the same blinky line, also SDDM? The world may never know.
man ssdmseems to indicate it’s a user called sddm, whom I need to add to the video group and then I’ll see… something? Maybe?I remember the “switch to tty2” thing too, from old glory Ubuntu days (I mean decade ago at least). Nowadays when I switch to a different tty, it feels like stuff is assigned randomly. Honestly I never got that deep into it to study and don’t understand it fully myself. So don’t ask me about details, I would probably look goofy then.
SDDM is a popular graphical display manager used by KDE as the default, because their previous house made display manager didn’t support Wayland. Gnome has GDM (do they still?) and there are bunch of others. You can switch the display manager too, I think KDE even offers builtin option to change, but I’m not sure right now. The name display manager is a bit confusing, because its about your user login with graphical interface.