On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 00:26:12 +0100, David Claughton wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> It would be interesting to see which keycodes and keysyms are reported >> if you run "xev", press (and hold) both CTRL and ALT, and then press F1, >> F2, etc. Does xev really display the keycodes for the Fn keys and the >> keysyms "XF86_Switch_VT_n"? Are the hexadecimal keysym values the same >> as the ones that you get with "grep VT /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB"? > > As another "sufferer" of this problem I thought I would give this a try > - I get ... > > KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001, > root 0x3e, subw 0x0, time 1066810844, (622,696), root:(630,759), > state 0x10, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: > XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: > XFilterEvent returns: False > > KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001, > root 0x3e, subw 0x0, time 1066810861, (622,696), root:(630,759), > state 0x14, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: > XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: > XFilterEvent returns: False > > KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001, > root 0x3e, subw 0x0, time 1066815357, (622,696), root:(630,759), > state 0x1c, keycode 67 (keysym 0xffbe, F1), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: > XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: > XFilterEvent returns: False
I think that is part of the problem: Even though you hold down CTRL and ALT before you press F1, you still get the normal "F1" keysymbol and not the "XF86_Switch_VT_1" one. If I run "xev" and press the three keys then I never see the KeyPress event for F1 because X switches to the terminal. If, on the other hand, I disable VT switching in my xorg.conf then I still do not get any event for F1 if I press it while CTRL + ALT are held down. Something within X obviously intercepts these events and processes them or deletes them from the event queue, depending on the settings in xorg.conf. [ snip: we see the expected three KeyRelease events ] > And "grep VT /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB" returns : > > XF86_Switch_VT_1 :1008FE01 [...] I have the same here. > Does this tell anyone anything? Check what is assigned to keycode 67. I see this: $ xmodmap -pk | egrep '^[ ]+67 ' 67 0xffbe (F1) 0x1008fe01 (XF86_Switch_VT_1) If your output looks different then you can try if xmodmap -e 'keycode 67 = F1 XF86_Switch_VT_1' restores the VT switching. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]