CTRL-ALT-F1 doesn't work

[Tom H]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
>>> Has anybody a clue why CTRL-ALT-F1 (or F2 or F3, etc.) suddenly doesn't
>>> work??
>>> Ubuntu Karmic AMD-64 and I cannot find special key-bindings anywhere.
>>> It is weird as I cannot start a terminal to do some serious
>>> disk-cleaning/testing to see if he is definitively going to the disk bin.
>>
>> Check your process list for ttys.
>>
>> Check your keyboard (System-Preferences-Keyboard) for alt and ctrl key behavior.
>>
> Tom,
> As you suggested, I looked in Keyboard and changed the "any ALT-key" to
> "any Win-key" for choosing third Level and suddenly CTRL-ALT-F1 works!.
> I have (standard) 6 ttys while 7 is the X-console.
> Thanks for the suggestion.

You're welcome.