Re: [SLUG] Can't switch out of X

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Aug 17 2005 - 20:31:16 EDT

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Paul M Foster wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:02:12PM -0400, Anthony Harper wrote:
>
> > Paul M Foster wrote:
> >
> > >Anyone ever heard of being unable to hit Ctrl-Alt-Fn to switch to a
> > >console out of X? If so, what was the problem/fix?

I thought it was this:

Option "DontZap" "boolean"
       This disallows the use of the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace sequence. That
       sequence is normally used to terminate the X server. When this
       option is enabled, that key sequence has no special meaning and is
       passed to clients. Default: off.

but that's the wrong key combo.

> I don't have a session manager installed. I'm running X with Blackbox,
> and using "startx" to get into it.

Maybe Blackbox has grabbed the keyboard? I believe xlock has an option to
do that.

> This is such an obscure problem, and I can't figure out how to google
> it. Let's take another tack.
>
> How would I go about setting, say, "Alt-G" to go to virtual console
> number 3?

Bind "chvt 3" to alt-G. In fvwm2 it would be something like

# any context --v v-- alt
Key G A A exec chvt 3 

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