Ctrl+Alt+F1 switching is not possible unless you expose virtual terminals on the other virtual displays. Arch Linux at least does this by default, except that y

Ctrl+Alt+F1 switching is not possible unless you expose virtual terminals on the other virtual displays. Arch Linux at least does this by default, except that your first X session will start on the same display as your virtual terminal (which is good for security relative to the earlier practice of moving Xorg to VT7 while leaving an active shell on VT1). For networking I suggest looking at ConnMan. It has a somewhat unintuitive UI, but it is lightweight, fast, and I have yet to find a wireless network that it will not let me connect to.