Console Mode from Desktop With most linux distros you can hit control + alt + F1 or the like, and get a Console. This is really useful when your X11 / display manager freezes, because you can restart that process / service in a couple of seconds and be back in.

Is there a way to do the same thing with mac (10.8.2)? It's pretty annoying to see your display freeze and know that your kernel is likely chugging along just fine..

I looked around for answers, but all I could find is the login window hack.

Thanks!
No - not only can't you toggle this from your session once logged in, but you actually have to log out of all other graphical based user-sessions before the >console shortcut will work.


&gt;console does not work