Re: Ctrl-Alt-F1 does not switch to a text mode console

[mike <mike redtux1 uklinux net>]

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 09:33, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> [I spoiled your beautiful layout just to keep all the text in
> but to have some space in which to reply too. Sorry :) ]
> 
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:40:38AM -0500 or thereabouts, Pierre Sarrazin wrote:
> > On Nov. 15th, I reported a problem with my GNOME 2.4 desktop where
> > Ctrl-Alt-F1 fails to switch to a text mode console.
> > I did a few experiments to try to isolate the cause of the problem.
> > I created a .xsession file with the following lines and with
> > permissions 755 in my home directory:
> >     xterm &
> >     exec fvwm2
> >
> > Then I logged in and got a session without GNOME and without Metacity,
> > which is the window manager I normally use.  Ctrl-Alt-F1 worked and
> > switched to a text console.
> > 
> > Then I tried running only Metacity:
> >     xterm &
> >     exec metacity
> > 
> > Ctrl-Alt-F1 still worked then.  Then I tried running only the
> > GNOME Panel:
> >     xterm &
> >     exec gnome-panel
> > 
> > Then Ctrl-Alt-F1 did not work.  Am I on the right track?  Could there
> > be something in the Panel that intercepts Ctrl-Alt-F1?  Thanks.
> 
> There are a _lot_ of keyboard bindings in Gnome. control-alt-tab
> to focus the panel, for example (by default, anyway). You can read
> http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/latest/index.html and 
> spend hours messing about with them :) 
> 
> But it would surprise me to find control-alt-F[1-8] allotted 
> to anything in Gnome: X knows and uses those already. 
> 
> control-alt-F1 switches me back to the first virtual console
> here. And I have exactly your combination below:  
> 

have you tested with a clean/new user account?

> > A few version numbers on my system:
> >     libgnome-2.4.0-1
> >     libgnomeui-2.4.0.1-1
> >     gnome-panel-2.4.0-3
> >     metacity-2.6.3-1
> > This installation is made of Fedora Core 1 RPM packages.
> 
> So I don't know what's going on here. I believe whether to
> honour control-alt-backspace may be a setting you can configure
> in X (XFree86Config at a guess, but I have never done this),
> but the control-alt-functionkey thing, I dunno..
> 
> Sorry.
> 
> Telsa
> 
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