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

[Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip sympatico ca>]

Ctrl-Alt-F1 does not work anymore (to switch to a text console)
on my system, which I've recently upgraded from Ximian Desktop 2.0
to GNOME 2.4 (with the RPMs from Fedora Core 1).

When the mouse cursor is over a Galeon window, Ctrl-Alt-F1 switches
it to full screen mode.

When the mouse cursor is in an gnome-terminal and in the cat(1)
command, Ctrl-Alt-F1 produces this: ^[[23;7~

I thought Metacity might be capturing the key sequence, but
the shortcuts preferences window does not show any line with
<Ctrl><Alt>F1 as the shortcut.  Also, it still doesn't work when
I replace Metacity with Openbox, nor with no window manager at all.

Has anyone had this problem before?

-- 
Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip at sympatico dot ca>