Success, but I can't explain it all. First, I removed 'Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" ' from xorg.conf. That got the VT working and the Zooming. But ALT-TAB wasn't working at all. Now, earlier I had problems with the WIN key not working for me as I wanted it to, and adde some xmodmap entires for the WIN key (but not the ALT key).
Still, I got suspicous, and took those out, but the XkbVariant back, and now everything including the WIN key is working. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list