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Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap



On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:37PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > Amy, I was helping you with this and then got distracted.
> > Did you resolve this issue at all?
> 
> Unfortunately, no (and I also got somewhat distracted and
> just came across this message). Basically, at this point I
> think I could kludge together a quick fix for this if I
> could figure out how to give my regular user account
> permission to access chvt, but I haven't gotten around to
> booking up on permissions so that I can make it SUID root or
> something (though, actually, that would probably not be the
> smartest idea ever because I'd rather have relatively few
> SUID root items lying around my hard drive). Anyway, if you
> have any thoughts on this I'd appreciate hearin' them.
> Thanks a lot!

maybe you could wrap it in a script that was suid root, but I don't
know about those things either. 

> 
> Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > > Do you have a customited xmodmap?
> 
> Yes, but I don't change any of the F-whatever keys in it.
> Basically, all I do with xmodmap is move some modifiers
> around (putting Control where Caps is, adding a Hyper key,
> etc.). Also, I have tried starting X up without loading
> that, and still had the problem. I appreciate the thought,
> however. Thanks!
> 

well, that's too bad. Did we ever do xmodmap -pk | grep VT to confirm
those line up properly? 

A

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