[I spoiled your beautiful layout just to keep all the text in but to have some space in which to reply too. Sorry :) ] On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:40:38AM -0500 or thereabouts, Pierre Sarrazin wrote: > On Nov. 15th, I reported a problem with my GNOME 2.4 desktop where > Ctrl-Alt-F1 fails to switch to a text mode console. > I did a few experiments to try to isolate the cause of the problem. > I created a .xsession file with the following lines and with > permissions 755 in my home directory: > xterm & > exec fvwm2 > > Then I logged in and got a session without GNOME and without Metacity, > which is the window manager I normally use. Ctrl-Alt-F1 worked and > switched to a text console. > > Then I tried running only Metacity: > xterm & > exec metacity > > Ctrl-Alt-F1 still worked then. Then I tried running only the > GNOME Panel: > xterm & > exec gnome-panel > > Then Ctrl-Alt-F1 did not work. Am I on the right track? Could there > be something in the Panel that intercepts Ctrl-Alt-F1? Thanks. There are a _lot_ of keyboard bindings in Gnome. control-alt-tab to focus the panel, for example (by default, anyway). You can read http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/latest/index.html and spend hours messing about with them :) But it would surprise me to find control-alt-F[1-8] allotted to anything in Gnome: X knows and uses those already. control-alt-F1 switches me back to the first virtual console here. And I have exactly your combination below: > A few version numbers on my system: > libgnome-2.4.0-1 > libgnomeui-2.4.0.1-1 > gnome-panel-2.4.0-3 > metacity-2.6.3-1 > This installation is made of Fedora Core 1 RPM packages. So I don't know what's going on here. I believe whether to honour control-alt-backspace may be a setting you can configure in X (XFree86Config at a guess, but I have never done this), but the control-alt-functionkey thing, I dunno.. Sorry. Telsa _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
