Re: Control-Alt-F1 through Ctl-Alt=F8 no longer works for a specific logon.

[Karsten Bräckelmann <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 14:38 -0400, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> Here is the situation.  For all  logons but one, the ctl-alt-f1 to
                                   ^^^^^^
By "logon" you mean, that these keyboard shortcuts don't work for a
specific user, when being logged in to GNOME?


>  ctl-alt-f8 works fine.  I know that by renaming the defective home
> directory and by copying a virgin home directory to replace the logon
> which is defective, that I can laboriously do the repair. Is there a
> simpler way to do the repair?

Maybe some app intercepts these shortcuts? Did you have a look at the
keyboard and keyboard shortcuts preferences for that user?

  guenther


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