On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:50:48PM +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > Philip Munksgaard wrote: > > I installed Fedora 11 today on my laptop, and i'm quite liking it so far. > > > > I have one small problem though: When i try to close windows by pressing alt > > + f4, i Fedora switches to a virtual terminal, as if i was pressing ctrl + > > alt + f4. And it's the same with all function keys. > > This is quite annoying, and i'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be like > > that, so i figured i might ask for help here. > > > > Apart from all that, i've also noticed that alt + left/right arrow switches > > terminals as well. > > Probably a silly question, but do you have two “Alt” keys on your > keyboard? Does it work the same if you use either “Alt” key? > What type of keyboard, what character set and language do you have? Do look for changes in keyboard shortcuts. System --> Preferences --> Personal --> Keyboard Shortcuts. I often copy a whole raft of config stuff from my old system to my new system. Sometimes this gets me into trouble. To sort this out, I like adding a new user "newbob" to the system and see if the new user has the same issues. If not then it is something in the old stuff I coppied over. Do watch for packages that tinker with keyboard bindings. Some assistive technology is a good thing but requires that you learn how to use it, commonly they rebind 'anything'. An X applicaton that has keyboard focus can rebind things toward it's own end. Because of this all display windows are not equal except in the case of Apple. Thus it is important to specify what application window is running. One tool "xprop" can help, also dumpkeys, "setxkbmap -print" and more. Later, mitch -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
