On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 03:45:42PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:28:07 -0400, I wrote: > > > But I have no evidence that the fkeys are ever seen with X running. > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:19:10 +0200, Florian Kulzer replied: > > > Run "xev" and check the keysyms for CRTL, ALT, F1, etc. It would be > > especially interesting to see what you get for the CTRL + ALT + Fn > > combinations. The keysyms should be "XF86_Switch_VT_n" for switching to > > another VT. > > Thanks for suggesting this. I believe you have led me to the solution > (although I now feel like an idiot too). I found that strikes to F5, F6, and > F10 were not seen at all by xev. I set out to see if there were any other > undetected keys and found one labeled "F Lock". Once I depressed that, the > other keys were detected and virtual terminals worked. I've never had an > "F Lock" key before and didn't know it was a possibility. But that's > probably all there was to it.
I wonder how many vt switching issues come down to this? I have a mini keyboard on some terminals at work that have a couple *lock keys with similar behavior. huh. A
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