Ctrl+Alt+number terminal switching stopped working

[Ian Moore]

On Monday 30 January 2006 13:16, Parv wrote:
> in message <200601282258.11962.no-spam at swiftdsl.com.au>, wrote Ian
> Moore thusly...
>
> > 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?
>
> I can't say if "XkbDisable" would help in your case ...
>
>   Section "ServerFlags"
>     Option "DontZap"        "false"
>     Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"     "true"
>
>     #  XFree86 4.[34].x - Add "DontVTSwitch" to be false (for console
>     #  switching).
>     Option "DontVTSwitch"   "false"
>
>     Option "HandleSpecialKeys"      "Always"
>
>     #  Xorg 6.8.(2|99.903) - Add "XkbDisable" to be true (for console
>     #  switching).
>     Option "XkbDisable"      "true"
>   EndSection
>
>
> ... but try it.
>
>
>   - Parv

I've never had to specify any of those before - they always defaulted to those 
values, but I guess the default has changed in 6.9 - VT Switching works again 
now.

Cheers,
Ian