Re: tty13-24

["K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>]

I've only used a terminal, I'm unfamiliar with the benefits of one or more 
consoles over terminal windows.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Carmickle" <frank@carmickle.com>
To: "Debian Accessibility Team" <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2022 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: tty13-24



> On Dec 21, 2022, at 6:42 AM, Geoff Shang <geoff@QuiteLikely.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022, Frank Carmickle wrote:
>
>> Interestingly, my sid system hasn't changed from the old behavior of 
>> using right alt for directly accessing tty13-tty24. My newly installed 
>> bullseye has me using left alt and shift to get there. Anyone know how to 
>> revert to old behavior?
>
> You need to put the following in /etc/default/keyboard:
>
> XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch"
>
> this has not changed since previous releases and I've had to add it there 
> to them too.
>
> You can run
>
> setupcon -k

Wow! Thank you.

Does anyone know if this made it in to any debian changelog?

Thanks much,
--FC

>
> to implement the change.
>
> Interestingly, the left alt key with shift still works after this change.
>
> HTH,
> geoff.
>