Switch to TTY1 on Ubuntu 11.10/MacBook Pro?

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 02/09/2012 08:23 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 07:23 PM, David C. Curtis wrote:
>> On 12-02-09 04:07 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>>> Just installed 11.10 on my MacBook Pro.
>>> Question is (and searching has yeilded nothing helpful) how to switch to
>>> TTY1? [CTRL][ALT][F1] does nothing....
>>
>> At the risk of insulting your intelligence, do you need to hit the Fn
>> key to use F1-F12? ;) Do MacBooks even have that key?
>>
>>
> Nah, no worries, no insult there. That's why I asked.
>
> But yes, I found out shortly before that I indeed need to use the [fn]
> key to get the [Fx] keys to ack as I expect. Otherwise, they act as the
> secondary labels say (volume control, etc.)
> In MacOSX, you have to go to a System Pref to change the default
> behaviour to get them to act as F keys...
> Looks like I need to fiddle with pommed for Ubuntu...
>
	Indeedy, that's the fix...
Install the pommed package, edit /etc/pommed.conf to change fnmode from 
1 to 2, and sudo pommed restart.


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