Re: Can no longer use ctrl-alt-del in new X - bug or feature?

From: TimC (tconnors+debianuser_at_astro.swin.edu.au)
Date: 04/02/04

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    In linux.debian.user, R E Riding (reriding@xmission.com) wrote:
    > On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:00:25 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote:
    >
    >> I've just installed X from Sarge and find that ctrl-alt-del no longer
    >> does anything, nor does ctrl-shift-f1 take me to a text terminal. To
    >> access a text terminal I have to close down X completely. Is this a bug,
    >> a feature, or do I have something misconfigured?
    >
    > You might fire up xkeycaps to see if F1 for example includes the
    > keysym "XF86_Switch_VC_1". This seems to be a problem with the
    > kbd extension for recent versions of X, and can be solved with
    > xmodmap.

    Any way in which to get the ability to switch consoles, but still keep
    Xemacs functionaily, that you know of?

    PS - please respond to the list, not to the linux.debian.user
    newsgroup - barely no-one will see your messages if you send it just
    to the newsgroup. 

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