What is a keyboard shortcut to open a terminal window in Fedora?
Author: Deron Eriksson
Description: This tutorial demonstrates a keyboard shortcut to a terminal window with Fedora.
Tutorial created using: Fedora 12


When using a GUI Desktop in Linux, it can be useful to hit a keyboard shortcut to open a terminal window. With Fedora, this can be done by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F2.

Fedora Gnome Desktop

From this terminal window page in Fedora, we can return to the GUI Desktop by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1.

Terminal Window