On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 06:54:34PM +0000, Brian wrote: > On Thu 26 Nov 2015 at 11:04:23 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > Marc writes: > > > Not alone, at all. I run Mate, but I boot to a console, log in there, > > > and use startx to get my X session. > > > > So do I, and I have a decades-old muscle memory that tells me > > CNTRL-ALT-F1 will get me a logged-in console. Having to reprogram that > > is a (minor) nuisance. It will be a much larger nuisance for the new > > users who will diligently read up on Linux before trying it (yes, there > > are people who do that) and learn that CNTRL-ALT-F1 gets them to a > > console and ALT-F7 gets them back to X. > > For many readers (diligent or otherwise), isn't this a matter of updated > documentation and re-education. There are still users (an example is in > this thread) who believe ctrl-alt-backspace no longer works in Debian. > It does.
So it does! Wonder why it didn't work for me on another machine. :( (I think I also vaguely remember seeing a discussion about it ... don't ya hate that!) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
