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

[JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>> 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.​

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.

​Thank you Rick.

As I already replied to the list, getty is indeed running:
​

​$​

  ps -ef | grep getty
root      2194     1  0 Jun22 tty2     00:00:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty2
root      2199     1  0 Jun22 tty3     00:00:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty3
root      2202     1  0 Jun22 tty4     00:00:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty4
root      2205     1  0 Jun22 tty5     00:00:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty5
root      2208     1  0 Jun22 tty6     00:00:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty6
root      2211     1  0 Jun22 tty7     00:00:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty7
root      2214     1  0 Jun22 tty8     00:00:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty8
root      2217     1  0 Jun22 tty9     00:00:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty9

​

My KB also issues ^[OQ when I press the F2 key by itself.

I am going to try another idea and get back to the list.

I am suspecting something in my

~/.gconf/
~/.gconfd/
~/.gnome2/

​~/​.gnome2_private/

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