What keypress will take me to tty13?

After a lot of attempts to fix this various ways, I finally figured out how to use dumpkeys and loadkeys to modify the kernel's "keyboard translation table". Here are the loadkeys strings to set RightAlt+F1 through RightAlt+F12 to their respective offsets from tty12:

altgr   keycode  59 = Console_13
altgr   keycode  60 = Console_14
altgr   keycode  61 = Console_15
altgr   keycode  62 = Console_16
altgr   keycode  63 = Console_17
altgr   keycode  64 = Console_18
altgr   keycode  65 = Console_19
altgr   keycode  66 = Console_20
altgr   keycode  67 = Console_21
altgr   keycode  68 = Console_22
altgr   keycode  87 = Console_23
altgr   keycode  88 = Console_24

Why Ubuntu doesn't include this in the default setup remains a mystery. :)

In Debian, I would just edit /etc/inittab, but Ubuntu uses Upstart.

Apparently, you're supposed to edit /etc/default/console-setup and set the ACTIVE_CONSOLES variable to be /dev/tty[1-13] in your case.

Before changing this, Right-Alt + Ctrl + F1 would bring me to tty1. Now, I just get a blank screen that I can't do anything on. I also had to manually copy the file /etc/event.d/tty1 to /etc/event.d/tty13 and change the settings inside appropriately.

I can't seem to get it to work.

shrug

On most systems, if you are at a text console, you can use Alt + the arrow keys to move to next and previous console.