On Saturday 21 July 2018 18.14:42 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

> Nothing special here. Modify your /etc/sudoers so that it contains an entry
> like this:
>
> %sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL, (root) NOPASSWD: /bin/chvt
>
> and then use xbindkeys to bind e.g F8 to switch to console 8 with "sudo
> /bin/chvt 8", that's all.
>
> Nik

Thanks Nik. Took me some time to install and understand, but it works great 
once you get in correctly.

Thierry