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From: Avaricen <avaricen@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:24:44
Message-Id: 45A6FE13.9030106@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+ by David Corbin
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4 David Corbin wrote:
5 > On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:05, Avaricen wrote:
6 >> Harm Geerts wrote:
7 >>> On Friday 12 January 2007 01:34, David Corbin wrote:
8 >>>> For some unknown reason, CTRL-ALT-NUM+ has stopped working for me. I'm
9 >>>> reasonably sure it happened when I switch from KDE-monolithic to the
10 >>>> individual KDE packages, odd as that sounds.
11 >>>>
12 >>>> I've sought help from #xorg and #gentoo on IRC, but no one has been
13 >>>> able to help. I can tell you this:
14 >>>>
15 >>>> 1) I do not have DontZoom in my xorg.conf file.
16 >>>> 2) xrandr lists several resolutions (more than I expected) and can
17 >>>> switch between at least two. But the switch is different than expected,
18 >>>> in that it changed the desktop size too.
19 >>>> 3) X Window System Version 7.1.1
20 >>>> Release Date: 12 May 2006
21 >>>> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
22 >>>>
23 >>>> Any ideas on how to solve this problem are appreciated.
24 >>> I *think* these events are passed directly to X, not to kde.
25 >>> So that would rule out the upgrade from monolithic kde.
26 >>>
27 >>> If I recall correctly the kde monolithic switch was around the same time
28 >>> Xorg had a major upgrade. In that upgrade there were some radical changes
29 >>> to the keyboard configuration. Is it possible the CTRL-ALT-NUM+ event
30 >>> doesn't trigger because the keyboard config is incorrect?
31 >> Have you attempted using CTRL-ALT-NUM+ on another desktop env?
32 >
33 > I have now, and it also fails. And I notice that CTRL-ALT-F1 will not switch
34 > me to a virtual terminal.
35 >
36 > David
37
38 I suggest reporting the matter to xorg developers.
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