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On 4 February 2015 15:27:32 CET, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 04:54:31PM -0800, Grant 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 |
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>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 |
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>the |
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>> desktop. I'm not sure what this is pointing to. Any ideas? |
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> The "chvt" command can change terminals. E.g. "chvt 1" is equivalant |
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>to Ctrl+Alt+F1. *NOTE*... "chvt" requires root (or su/sudo) permission |
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>to work. |
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Also, and this is just for completeness, once in a text console, you can use |
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<ALT>+<arrowleft or arrowright> |
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to cycle through the vt's in the direction of the arrow keys. |
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Joost |
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