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Date:      Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:27:08 -0600
From:      Erik Osterholm <erik+freebsd@cepheid.org>
To:        Ian Moore <no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ctrl+Alt+number terminal switching stopped working
Message-ID:  <20060129172708.GA8228@idoru.cepheid.org>
In-Reply-To: <200601282258.11962.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au>
References:  <200601282258.11962.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au>

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On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:58:10PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just noticed I can't switch from my X session back to the other vtty 
> screens using Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctrl+Alt+2 etc.
> I can't seem to find any info on this - is it a known issue or is it just my 
> system? It seems to happen when running both kde & twm, so it's not window 
> manger related.
> 
> I'm running 5.4-RELEASE and Xorg6.9 built from ports about a week ago. All 
> ports up to date as of 3 nights ago.
> 
> Cheers,

For starters, isn't it usually Ctrl+Alt+F1, Ctrl+Alt+F2, etc? 

Second, there's an option in your xorg.conf file for "DontVTSwitch".
Could that have accidentally been turned on?

man xorg.conf

Erik




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