On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 09:33, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > [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: > have you tested with a clean/new user account? > > 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 > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
