Ctrl+Alt+number terminal switching stopped working
Erik Osterholm
erik+freebsd at cepheid.org
Sun Jan 29 09:27:09 PST 2006
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:58:10PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just noticed I can't switch from my X session back to the other vtty
> screens using Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctrl+Alt+2 etc.
> I can't seem to find any info on this - is it a known issue or is it just my
> system? It seems to happen when running both kde & twm, so it's not window
> manger related.
>
> I'm running 5.4-RELEASE and Xorg6.9 built from ports about a week ago. All
> ports up to date as of 3 nights ago.
>
> Cheers,
For starters, isn't it usually Ctrl+Alt+F1, Ctrl+Alt+F2, etc?
Second, there's an option in your xorg.conf file for "DontVTSwitch".
Could that have accidentally been turned on?
man xorg.conf
Erik
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