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I already searched how it's possible to open the terminal on Raspbmc, however none of the two methods I know seems to work. I've read that I can open the terminal by pressing Ctr+Alt+F2 but nothing happens.

Theoretically the second method says to click on Shutdown option and then on Exit and wait until opens a "white" screen, then press Esc. This method neither works and a blank screen appears. The only thing that works is the combination of Ctr+Alt+Del which restarts the system.

What is causing that and why I can't see the terminal?

Also I managed to connect successfully through SSH with PuTTY, but I did something wrong in network settings, and now I can't connect. That's why I need to open the terminal.

I'm running Raspbmc.

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Unfortunately, it does not work with any of the solutions that I found, so I decided to remove this OS and move to Xbian. I really don't know what was causing this...

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Ctrl-Alt key combos won't work on Raspbmc because XBMC running on the Pi runs under OpenGL directly on the framebuffer, and not under X11 like it would on a regular Linux desktop.

In order to get a terminal in Raspbmc you need to quite out of XBMC without powering off. This should be possible by going to the little power icon and selecting "Exit".

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Theoretically the second method says to click on Shutdown option and then on Exit and wait until opens a "white" screen, then press Esc.

This works on my installation of OSMC (apart from "white" is not white but the moment when the OSMC screen re-appears)

I use this to startx for my LXDE session as described in my comment here

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