Bug? Alt-Fx keys switch VTs

[Mike Massonnet]

2010/6/8 Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz>:
> On Mon, 07 Jun 2010, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> On 07/06/2010 13:58, Michal Sojka wrote:
>> > after a recent upgrade of my Debian unstable, I experience very wired
>> > behavior of certain keyboard shortcuts. It seems that keyboard shortcuts
>> > that have some meaning in Linux text console (namely Alt-Fx,
>> > Alt-left/right, Ctrl-Alt-Del) retains this same meaning even if I log to
>> > Xfce (through GDM). This is very annoying since I heavily use Alt-F2 to
>> > execute xfrun4 and instead of showing me the dialog box, now it switches
>> > me to the text console. Also pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del (which I map to
>> > xfce4-session-logout) reboots my computer unconditionally.
>>
>> Hmmh, I'm not sure, but it seems that the system behaves as if the ctrl
>> key was always pressed or something. Maybe check the keymap settings (in
>> Xfce and in the system)?
>
> Hi and thanks for the reply,
>
> It doesn't seem to be caused by Ctrl always pressed. Ctrl works normally
> and Alt-Del doesn't trigger Ctrl-Alt-Del action. I tried to play with
> keymap settings (in Xfce and in /etc/defacult/keyboard) and nothing
> helped.
>
>>
>> Maybe an xorg change triggered that, but (using debian unstable too on
>> multiple boxes) I didn't experienced such a change. But we uploaded Xfce
>> 4.6.2 recently to unstable so it /might/ be related, altough I don't
>> know what could cause that.
>>
>> >
>> > I'm not sure whether it is Xfce related but if I first log in and out to
>> > KDE and then I login to Xfce, the problem disappears. I've tried to boot
>> > different kernels (2.6.3[234]) and the problem appears in all of them.
>>
>> That sound very weird. Maybe check with moving your Xfce config out of
>> the way (move .config/xfce somewhere else, keep a backup). If it fixes
>> the problem, you might have to check the diff between the two
>> configuration folders.
>
> I tried login to an account with empty $HOME and the problem appears
> even there, but I noticed that it is not necessary to login to KDE and
> then back to Xfce to get the normal keyboard behavior. It is sufficient
> to log to Xfce, then logout and login again.
>
> I also tried to replace GDM by KDM and the problem appeared even with
> KDM. If I do not use ?DM and start XFCE by startx command with
> startxfce4 in ~/.xsession, then the problem doesn't appear.

Does this also happen with the keys "windows" and "menu"?
Sometimes/Usually they are bind to switch between vts. One solution I
once found on Moblin, but that was a dirty trick and goes around the
problem, was to set a override those keybindings[1]. This thread may
be a solution for you[2].

[1] http://lists.moblin.org/pipermail/dev/2009-November/007279.html
[2] http://lists.moblin.org/pipermail/dev/2009-September/006182.html

> -Michal


HTH
-- 
Mike