Re: switching to console and zapping

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:31:15 -0400 (EDT), lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with
> Alt+Fx anymore?

You never could.  You need Ctrl too.  For example, switching from the
X console to text console number 1 requires

   Ctrl+Alt+F1

And last I knew, you had to use the left Alt key,
not the right Alt key (AltGr).  To switch *back* to the X console
from a text console, you don't need Ctrl.  For example, to switch
from text console number 1 to the X console you can use

   Alt+F7

(assuming that the X server is on vt 7, which, unfortunately, is not
always the case due to a bug.  Sometimes it's on vt 8, vt 9, etc.)

> It's also not possible to kill the X session with
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, though this feature is not turned off in the
> xorg.conf. I'm using fvwm-crystal as a window manager.

I think I remember seeing somewhere that DontZap is now enabled
by default.  If you want it off, it has to be explicitly
disabled.  But I'm going from memory here.

> This has been going on for a quite a while now, but just now I had to
> press reset button because I couldn't get out of X11 anymore :( I want
> the default behaviour that allows switching and zapping back ...

If you want to be absolutely sure, use

   Option "DontZap" false
   Option "DontVTSwitch" false

in the Serverflags section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
I think you have to use the left Alt key with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace too,
though I can't swear to it.

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