On 06/23/2014 12:20 PM, JD issued this missive:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Laing, Robin <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: On 2014-06-22 13:20, JD wrote: > Using Mate on FC20, with latest updates. > Cntrl-Alt-F keys never worked from the very first login into Mate Desktop. > > These are the installed mate packages. Am I missing something? > > It my be worthwhile to note that at the login screen, Cntrl-Alt-F keys DO > WORK!! > After login, into mate desktop, they stop working. > Is there something that is happening to the keyboard mapping? My keyboards require a function key to be set to use the Function keys. Is this being reset when Mate starts? showkey can be used to see if they are working. On my keyboard, if the F lock button is not pushed, then the keys send anything. xkeycaps as well. My KB is the laptop's KB (Dell Latitude E6500) There is no F-Lock key that I can see. Tried showkey and pressed Cntrl-Alt-F2 # showkey kb mode was ?UNKNOWN? [ if you are trying this under X, it might not work since the X server is also reading /dev/console ] press any key (program terminates 10s after last keypress)... By the above warning, it seems useless to try showkey under X But here goes ....
Trying them from my machine...
keycode 29 press
That's correct for the left control key
keycode 56 press
That's correct for the left ALT key
keycode 60 press
Looks OK for the F2 key on my machine. Note that it also echoes "^[OQ" when I press F2.
keycode 60 release keycode 56 release keycode 29 release And still no effect.
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