How to exit the virtual terminal?
@Kerth G. if you press these buttons: Ctrl+Alt+(F1 to F6), you will get TTY, to exit from that you have two ways:
- Press Ctrl+Alt+F7, if you have function keys enabled press Ctrl+Alt+Fn+F7.
- Log into TTY with your user credentials, then in TTY type command:
init 5
, press Enter, now you will get Graphical User Interface.
To log out of a virtual console, you need to type exit
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Your Desktop Environment will be started in one of the virtual terminals. On Ubuntu, it is on tty7. So to get to it, press Ctrl + Alt + F7.
Usually one virtual terminal (1 or 7) is reserved for the graphical environment, so to come out of a virtual terminal either try CTRL + ALT + F1 or CTRL + ALT + F7.