Re: [gnome-love] Ctrl-Alt-F7 in jhbuild Gnome

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

Hi,

On Dec 4, 2007 3:35 PM, Christian Kirbach
<christian kirbach googlemail com> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:07:59 +0100, Craig Keogh <cskeogh bigpond net au>
> wrote:
>
> > I have build gnome-2.22 using jhbuild. However, when I log into jhbuilt
> > Gnome, I can't switch displays using Ctrl-Alt-F7 - Ctrl-Alt-F10. The
> > keypress is ignored. How do I enable this?
>
> I've noticed this, too. I have not investigated this further but I am now
> using Xnest to run an Xserver
> instance in a window. As a workaround you can also ask for a new login
> instead off logging out.
> But switching X sessions like this is really tedious.

I'm not sure if this is the same issue as Joseph was having and
figured out earlier, but it sounds like it may be.  Maybe his email
will be of some use, I'll quote it here:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Elijah,

I resolved the VT-switching problem I mentioned in an email on 19Feb07:

Short Answer
------------
Configuration issues with the GARNOME build of libxklavier-3.1.


Longer Answer
-------------
VT-switching failed to work because the keyboard map selected when the
desktop came up was borked.

A keyboard map that supports VT-switching should contain entries similar
to the following:

[ from 'xmodmap -pk' ]
                              ...
    67         0xffbe (F1)     0x1008fe01 (XF86_Switch_VT_1)
    68         0xffbf (F2)     0x1008fe02 (XF86_Switch_VT_2)
    69         0xffc0 (F3)     0x1008fe03 (XF86_Switch_VT_3)
    70         0xffc1 (F4)     0x1008fe04 (XF86_Switch_VT_4)
    71         0xffc2 (F5)     0x1008fe05 (XF86_Switch_VT_5)
    72         0xffc3 (F6)     0x1008fe06 (XF86_Switch_VT_6)
    73         0xffc4 (F7)     0x1008fe07 (XF86_Switch_VT_7)
    74         0xffc5 (F8)     0x1008fe08 (XF86_Switch_VT_8)
    75         0xffc6 (F9)     0x1008fe09 (XF86_Switch_VT_9)
    76         0xffc7 (F10)    0x1008fe0a (XF86_Switch_VT_10)
                               ...

Instead, Fn was seen to be mapped to Fm, where m = n + 10. Manually
altering the keyboard map restored VT-switching.

Hmmm... What's going on?

Bringing up gnome-keyboard-properties provided a clue. From the Layout
tab, the only keyboard model available was "generic". Normally there is
a lengthy list to choose from.  Hmmm... Something is amiss.

Looking at the X11/keyboard dependencies for gnome-keyboard-properties
led the an examination of the GARNOME build for libxklavier-3.1, which
unearthed the root cause of the problem:

       Fedora-like systems no longer install everything X11-related
       under /usr/X11R6. Most X11-related files are installed directly
       under /usr.


In particular,

  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb    -->    /usr/share/X11/xkb
  /usr/X11R6/bin/xkb*       -->    /usr/bin/xkb*


Re-configuring the build for libxklavier:

  CONFIGURE_ARGS += --with-xkb-base=/usr/share/X11/xkb \
                    --with-xkb-bin-base=/usr/bin

resolved the problem.

The GAR makefile for libxklavier in GARNOME SVN-trunk has been updated
with optional configuration args.


Live an learn...


-Joseph