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How to leave Xwindows and returnIn case it should help, pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 takes you to a terminal and Ctrl-Alt-F7 gets you back to Xwindows. I don't know where these are documented, nor how you set them, let alone the "sleep" button on the keyboard... Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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How to leave Xwindows and
It's all in the Debian documentation (somewhere). Once upon a time [alt]F1..F10 got you any of 10 text consoles. On most current Linux distributions, F1..F6 will be a text console and F7 will be X. Sometimes people set up another X terminal on F8 and still others on F9 and F10. What console goes where is set up by /etc/inittab and the X scripts. Why run multiple instances of X? Well, if someone else nags you to leave the computer for a while, you can lock your X session and they can log into a second X session in the other terminal. No need to log out or anything of the sort.
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If you started X from a script like "startx" you can exit X and shut down the X server by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This will return you to a console on an X-less machine. You can use this key combination with display managers, but they are usually configured to restart again immediately, so it will be the equivalent of logging out of X.
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CTRL + ALT + F1-10 will drop you to a text console. If you would like to go back to X CTRL+ALT+F7 usually does the trick. While Ctrl-Alt-Backspace will reload the X server.
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