![]() ![]() The first virtual terminal is the one where your GUI will start when you login, if it’s a recent version. There are people who actually use only the terminal for all their computing marvels, such as Server Administrators looking all day at their terminals. Linux still keeps this feature, and for a big reason. The only way one could achieve multitasking inside his Linux machine was to use the TTY terminals, as long as the terminal multiplexers had not shown their faces yet. There weren’t window managing systems which would allow you to run concurrent programs together, neither were there these mice we have nowadays. If I were to tell you in plain, simple English, TTYs exist because back in the day, there was nothing like Graphical User Interfaces. So what does it actually do? Now I can be explaining it in a tougher way using professional terms, but it wouldn’t help you understand its true objective. The main culprit here is the Virtual Terminal, which is also known as TTY. Visit this part once again after reading the next sections, if you did not understand a thing. ![]() Hold on hold on hold on! I know it might be going over your head, but the following sections should give you a better idea of what I’m really talking about here. For now, what matters is that in recent versions, pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1 won’t do anything, as the GUI is started on the first virtual terminal instead of the 7th one. However, this is mostly relevant if you use a Window Manager instead of a Desktop Environment. ![]() Firstly, you can run 6 separate sessions running full-blown GUI Environments, as compared to only one in previous versions. Recent versions of Linux only have 6 virtual terminals in total, but there are good sides to this. You wouldn’t be able to use the first 6 virtual terminals to start separate sessions of the Desktop Environment.īut now, things have changed. Previously, there were a total of 7 virtual terminals that you could’ve used, of which there were 6 command-line (terminal) only ones, and the 7th one was assigned for the GUI, or the Desktop Environment which you usually run. If you’re using an old version, and your Linux system has a Desktop Environment, then pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1 would’ve brought you to a Virtual Terminal. Nothing, at least in newer versions of Linux. ![]() Beware, it’s going to get so wrong if you don’t really know what you’re doing, so it’s best you hear my out first. I’m here to tell ya guys about what really happens if you press Ctrl + Alt + F1, while you’re chilling in your graphical, Desktop Environment. Now I can dig deep enough to have you spend reading this article all day long, which is not my objective (at least for now). One of those many features that are barely heard of by casual users is the Virtual Terminals, also known as TTY. Linux is an old lad, so it has features that descend from its ancestors, particularly the so-called UNIX. The terminal power is something a professional user would prefer over clicking buttons with a mouse. Though the ones seen on films are not actually anything but work of motion graphics, Linux is actually home to most hacker kids you might find out there. Don’t agree with me? What about the terminals? When hackers in movies are seemingly spamming their keyboard to appear as if they had hacked the whole world, what is the medium where they appear to do so? It’s the terminal, and it is very much a Linux one. ![]()
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