Missing virtual terminals

Daniel Robitaille robitaille at imapmail.org
Mon Aug 8 04:04:24 UTC 2005


On Mon, 08 Aug 2005, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> > Did they change default runlevel? It looks like they changed it so that
> > getty will only be running on tty1 if runlvel > 3
> > 
> > 'ps a | grep getty' will tell you which gettys are running...
> > 
> > Have they/you manage to sneak the following into xorg.conf?
> > Option "DontVTSwitch"  "true"
> > 
> > /John
> > 
> > 
> What exactly happens when you press "CTRL+ALT+F1" from within X?  Do you
> switch to a blank screen or simply *nothing* happens (you are still
> inside GNOME/KDE)?

in my case nothing happen.  I'm still inside Gnome (if I'm logged in), or at 
the gdm prompt if I'm not.  The ctrl+alt+fX keys are totally ignored.  And
it used to work, until 1 or 2 weeks ago.


-- 
Daniel Robitaille





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