Accidentally hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1

I like to connect to my main desktop from work, and to do it I use VNC.
Sometimes I'll accidentally hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 in VNC and this is apparently sent to my machine and so it switches to the first terminal!
This completely locks me out because then apparently VNC stops sending keypresses, or my machine stops responding to them.
What should I do in this situation?
There has to be a way to send a keypress to my machine. What even listens for keypresses in the terminal or when I don't have X running and how can I send fake keys to it?
Thanks.

MJBoa wrote:If I wanted to send keys, could I?
If the windows have the focus you can send keys with the command xdotool.
To install:
sudo pacman -S xdotool
More information: man xdotool.

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