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On 4 February 2015 10:54:31 AM AEST, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>I send a system image of my laptop to various other laptops of the |
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>same make and model which they use to operate. I wrote a script for |
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>this and it works great. I've run into a situation where a particular |
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>new (used) laptop works fine but the Alt+F2 shortcut to open the |
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>program launcher in xfce4 doesn't work and I can't switch to VTs 1-3 |
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>with Ctrl+Alt+F1/F2/F3. VT4 works but then VT7 doesn't bring back the |
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>desktop. I'm not sure what this is pointing to. Any ideas? |
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Some laptops have a bios option to switch the behavior of the Fn key such that you need to press Fn+F2 to send a F2 key. The bare F1/F2/.. send the extra keys, such as volume controls and screen brightness. It might be worth checking if Fn+Alt+F2 does what you want. |
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Bruce |
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