TTY switch for Ctrl-Alt F1 and Alt-F1...F6 in Mac OS X

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Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 picture Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 · Apr 29, 2009 · Viewed 32.7k times · Source

Is it possible...

  1. to have a terminal mode for the keybinding Ctrl+Alt+F1
  2. to switch between TTYs for Alt+F1...F6

Ubuntu has the above commands to move between different TTYs.

It seems that Mac does not have them activated.

How can you activate the above functionalities in Mac?

Answer

mandolo picture mandolo · Sep 5, 2013

Only one TTY (TTY1) is available in OSX. To enable tty use fn+ctrl+alt+F1.

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