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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 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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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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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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