Re: Ctrl+Alt not working

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 09:37, Toralf Lund wrote:
> Maybe I've mentioned this before, but after upgrading to Red Hat 9, I 
> started getting problems with my key map. Simply put, Ctrl+Alt 
> combination does not work, or are caught by GNOME somehow, so I cant use 
> Ctrl+Alt+F-keys to change VT, or Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to logout.
> 
> Why does this happen?

Sounds like you are setting a custom keymap in some fashion -- prior to
XFree86-4.3.0 these keys were hard-coded in the server, in 4.3.0, they
were moved to being configured in the keymap.

Does that sound like a plausible explanation?

						Owen