Re: CTRL-ALT-F8 doesn't work

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 16:28:50 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Tue November 20 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > That seems OK to me. Which events are reported if you run "xev" and
> > press (separately) CTRL, ALT, and the Fn keys?
> # xev

[...]

> KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
>     root 0x155, subw 0x0, time 1593122898, (1204,615), root:(1208,642),
>     state 0x10, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
>     XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
>     XFilterEvent returns: False

[...]

> KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
>     root 0x155, subw 0x0, time 1593125346, (1204,615), root:(1208,642),
>     state 0x10, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
>     XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
>     XFilterEvent returns: False

[...]

> KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
>     root 0x155, subw 0x0, time 1593127010, (1204,615), root:(1208,642),
>     state 0x10, keycode 73 (keysym 0xffc4, F7), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
>     XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
>     XFilterEvent returns: False

That looks OK to me.

Which output do you get for these three commands:

awk '/Section "(InputDevice|ServerFlags)"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf

xmodmap

xmodmap -pk | grep '(F[0-9]\+)'

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