F11 & ctrl-alt-backspace and Fn

[jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)]

I just tried that, and I found that Ctl-Alt-F1 is the X11
session (which used to be on Ctl-Alt-F7), but
Ctl-Alt-F2 .. F6 still give virtual consoles.
Ctl-Alt-F7.. F9 do nothing.

I didn't try Ctl-Alt-BS yet.



On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Feldman<feldman.g-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Since installing F11, I have not been able to get ctrl-alt-backspace and
> ctrl-alt-f[1-6] to work. ctrl-alt-backspace is disabled by default in
> the most recent xorg changes that include all distros.
>
> I tried adding
> ? ? ? ? Option "DontZap" "false" into the ServerFlags section of
> xorg.conf according to the release notes:
> <http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/>
> Actually, I tried setting it to both true or false.
>
> Additionally, refers to System/Preferences/Keyboard/Layout/Loayout Options
>
> <http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/controlaltbackspace-shortcut-does-not-restart-the-x-server-in-fedora-11/>
> http://tinyurl.com/l422y4
>
> But, my layout options come up empty, and the keyboard shortcuts does
> not have that option. *
>
> *Additionally, I have not been able to find out what the virtual
> terminal options (ctrl-alt-F[1-6] do not work. Currently, the only way I
> can get to the virtual terminal is to switch to run level 3. Actually, I
> needed to increase the size of my home logical volume, but I could not
> to that from my login, and root logins are disabled (also documented).
> The issue here is that the file system cannot be mounted.
>
> Another minor issue is that LVM only gave me a choice of EXT3 and EXT2,
> not EXT4, but I don't really care too much about this.
> *
> *
>
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