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lanatha
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 Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 8:10 pm Post subject: GNOME 2.0 won't let me swap to virtual consoles! |
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Hi! This is a problem that has been consistent since I installed gentoo a couple of months ago. Basically, I hit CTRL-ALT-FX and nothing happens, even though there's a vc on every tty from 1 to 11 (X gets tty12). I checked for keybindings in gconfeditor and nothing seems to apply. Also, CTRL-ALT-BKSP and CTRL-ALT-+/- don't want to work, either.
Anyone have any suggestions? |
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David_Escott
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| Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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this would probably have to do with your XF86config
for instance i know there is a nozap option in XF86Config which prevents users from killing X ith Ctrl-Alt-Bksp. So is there anything unusual in that? |
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lanatha
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| Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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Nope. It's really quite straightforward, nothing special of that nature at all.
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
[...]
Section "Module"
# Double Buffering
Load "dbe"
# Bunch of modules, including DGA
Load "extmod"
# Type 1 fonts
Load "type1"
# Speedo fonts
Load "speedo"
# Freetype fonts
Load "freetype"
# ...truetype fonts? dunno.
Load "xtt"
# glx gl libraries
Load "glx"
# direct rendering libraries (depend on glx)
Load "dri"
EndSection
[...]
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:toggle,lv3:switch,grp_led:scroll,caps:shift_nocancel,altwin:menu"
EndSection
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...and that's about it for stuff that could possibly be relevant.
Anything else? |
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David_Escott
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| Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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well you dotted out precisely the portion that needed to be seen
The serverflags section which has
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# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><BS> server abort sequence
# This allows clients to receive this key event.
# Option "DontZap"
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but I will take your word for it that this is not uncommented.
also what happens if you try to use chvt directly |
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lanatha
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| Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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that section isn't there, actually.
chvt successfully changes to the console! Woo! I could bind the F-keys that way, I suppose... that is a bit of a pain, though. Does it fail because Gnome/Metacity un-binds all keys by default, or something like that? |
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David_Escott
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| Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| it shouldn't at least it doesn't for me. But I don't know what program usually binds the ctrl-alt-fx to chvt so I dont know what is different on your system to mess that up. |
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