How to pass through keystrokes to the X server?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-11-19, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Those shortcuts are caught and handled by the X server directly, Xfce
> has nothing to do with this.
>
> man xorg.conf
>
>        Option "DontVTSwitch"  "boolean"
>               This disallows the use of the  Ctrl+Alt+Fn  sequence  (where  Fn
>               refers  to one of the numbered function keys).  That sequence is
>               normally used to switch to another "virtual terminal" on operat-
>               ing  systems  that  have  this  feature.   When  this  option is
>               enabled, that key sequence has no special meaning and is  passed
>               to clients.  Default: off.

Thanks.  I should have known that.  After messing around with
it more, it appears it's ATI's ever-buggy fglrx driver that's
causing the problems.

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