F11 & ctrl-alt-backspace and Fn solved

[Jerry Feldman]

There are some keyboard packages I added that enabled the 
System/Preferences/Keyboard/Layout/Layout Options.
Not sure exactly which one, because I installed a few at the same time. 
Now, both ctrl-alt-backspace and ctrl-alt-fn work fine.

On 06/14/2009 11:43 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Since installing F11, I have not been able to get ctrl-alt-backspace 
> and ctrl-alt-f[1-6] to work. ctrl-alt-backspace is disabled by default 
> in the most recent xorg changes that include all distros.
>
> I tried adding
>         Option "DontZap" "false" into the ServerFlags section of 
> xorg.conf according to the release notes:
> <http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/>
> Actually, I tried setting it to both true or false.
>
> Additionally, refers to System/Preferences/Keyboard/Layout/Loayout 
> Options
>
> <http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/controlaltbackspace-shortcut-does-not-restart-the-x-server-in-fedora-11/> 
>
> http://tinyurl.com/l422y4
>
> But, my layout options come up empty, and the keyboard shortcuts does 
> not have that option. *
>
> *Additionally, I have not been able to find out what the virtual 
> terminal options (ctrl-alt-F[1-6] do not work. Currently, the only way 
> I can get to the virtual terminal is to switch to run level 3. 
> Actually, I needed to increase the size of my home logical volume, but 
> I could not to that from my login, and root logins are disabled (also 
> documented). The issue here is that the file system cannot be mounted.
>
> Another minor issue is that LVM only gave me a choice of EXT3 and 
> EXT2, not EXT4, but I don't really care too much about this.
> *
> *
>


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