Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

[Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/23/2014 03:45 PM, JD wrote:

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 06/23/2014 03:20 PM, JD wrote:
>
> 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 ....​
>
> keycode  29 press
> keycode  56 press
> keycode  60 press
> keycode  60 release
> keycode  56 release
> keycode  29 release
>
> ​And still no effect.​
>
> ​xkeycaps fails to detect my type of keyboard and assumes a 101 key PC
> keyboard,
> which is not the case.
>
> The GUI does not allow scrolling the KB type list so I can select the
> right KB.
> I tried to scroll it with the mouse and with the up/down arrow keys to
> not avail. I tried to drage the scroll bar of each columns in the KB
> config GUI,
> again to no avail.
> ​
>
maybe modify your keyboard layout??

 https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/37617/how-to-change-the-keyboard-layout-permanently/

If you didn't have the graphical way or localectl. You could edit or
create the file /etc/locale.conf and if you were en_US.UTF-8 (replace
with the Spanish-Latin America equivalent). You would place in
/etc/locale.conf

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

Also you would edit or create the file /etc/vconsole.conf and if you
were in the U.S.A (replace with the Spanish-Latin America equivalent).
You would place in /etc/vconsole.conf

​The real question is: Why did not Anaconda correctly detect my KB type

so that programs like xkeycaps would not have to guess the wrong KB type?

I like Rick's answer better..

​And still no effect.​

If you're trying to get to a text console, please make sure the
getty.target service is running:

    # systemctl status getty.target

If it's not running, then the system won't spawn an agetty for the
console you're trying to get to. IIRC, getty.target is wanted by the
multiuser.target, so if you launched X by some means other than via
a multiuser boot, then that's likely your problem.

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587

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