Re: Alt+Cont+F(1,2,...) not responding
Antonio Rodriguez <arodriguez31@cfl.rr.com> said on Wed, 25 Feb 2004 04:58:05 -0500:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:21:41AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> > Last night made an update in a sid system. Now after rebooting I can't
> > get to console. Any ideas?
> >
> The problem seems to be with Gnome. I logged out, killed X, came back
> in a fluxbox, and the Alt+Contr+F1 combination is working. Hmm, a
> little strange.
When I first tried out 4.3 on a SuSE box, I found that xemacs couldn't
handle shifted function keys anymore. A bit of investigation later, I
found out that some dimwit changed the behaviour of the console
switching keys, so shifted function keys were being parsed as console
switching keys. Except that they weren't console switching keys,
because ctrl wasn't also pressed. So shifted function keys got just
mapped to the function key itself. Now, the Xemacs team don't know how
to deal with this fsckery, so you have to change you Xmodmap file and
insert:
!seems X4.3 broke Xemacs. Try removing these again later
keycode 67 = F1
keycode 68 = F2
keycode 69 = F3
keycode 70 = F4
keycode 71 = F5
keycode 72 = F6
keycode 73 = F7
keycode 74 = F8
keycode 75 = F9
keycode 76 = F10
keycode 95 = F11
keycode 96 = F12
or something similar. Except now, you have shifted function keys in
xemacs, but can't switch consoles.
Fsck, and I hate 4.3 for other reasons too. And it looks like we can't
use 4.4 now, because of the license change.
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