On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 05:44, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 05:13:46PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:31:15 -0400 (EDT), lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de>
> wrote:
> > > what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with
> > > Alt+Fx anymore?
> >
> > You never could.  You need Ctrl too.  For example, switching from the
> > X console to text console number 1 requires
> >
> >    Ctrl+Alt+F1
>
> Oh, sorry, that was a typo. I meant to type Ctrl+Alt+Fn, of course.
>
> > And last I knew, you had to use the left Alt key,
> > not the right Alt key (AltGr).
>
> None of them do it ...
>
> > > It's also not possible to kill the X session with
> > > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, though this feature is not turned off in the
> > > xorg.conf. I'm using fvwm-crystal as a window manager.
> >
> > > press reset button because I couldn't get out of X11 anymore :( I want
> > > the default behaviour that allows switching and zapping back ...
> >
> > If you want to be absolutely sure, use
> >
> >    Option "DontZap" false
> >    Option "DontVTSwitch" false
> >
> > in the Serverflags section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
> > I think you have to use the left Alt key with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace too,
> > though I can't swear to it.
>
> What I have is:
>
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>    Identifier     "Layout0"
>    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>    Option         "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
>    Option         "AllowEmptyInput" "Off"
>    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
>    Option         "XkbModel" "pc102"
>    Option         "XkbLayout"   "de"
>    Option         "DontZap" "off"
> EndSection
>
>
> Neither switching to consoles is possible, nor terminating the X
> server with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.
>
>
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Try "chvt n" where n is the same as n of Fn. similary "chvt 7" from a text
console should bring you back to your x session.

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