daspostloch dixit (2009-12-17, 14:25): > you are right that was crap. sorry. > the F# works fine as just tested in firefox. > the reason i got confused is because i, other > than vterm, dont have use for them. > so the real issue is that switching vterms > doesnt work, not even right now in normal ops. > maybe because i xmodmapped alt to win and ctrl > to caps? or cause i inittab into runlevel 5 > directly? so this happens when an only superficially > experienced guy wants to use the power tools - > but now were completely off-topic :) > > > Anders Andersson wrote: > >> Thanks guys. A colleague also suggested switching vterm, > >> but unfortunately, the thinkpad gives access to the F# buttons > >> only via the Fn modifier, which does not seem to support > >> multi-key combinations. at least i have yet to figure out how > >> to do that. > > > > Curiously and mostly but not completely off-topic, but what kind of > > ThinkPad do you have that can only access the function keys with the > > Fn modifier? Maybe there's something else wrong with your keyboard > > layouts that affect this? > > > > (Look, I'm quoting correctly?!)
*Wasted*. The guy topposted you... As to the topic – dpms is quite useful, hope there's a way to have both. And to the guy up at the top, haven't you just switched off moving over to virtual consoles in Xorg config (like a installation default DontVTSwitch option or something)? -- [a]
