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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I just tested this in a Xubuntu session
with xfce desktop on 12.04 64 bit and I do not have this problem.<br>
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<div class="moz-signature"><b>Lutz Andersohn</b><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lutz.andersohn@gmail.com">lutz.andersohn@gmail.com</a><br>
(925) 784 1565<br>
D-19318, AFF-I<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/b65/2b6">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/b65/2b6</a>
Public key ID: 0x9620D1A6</div>
On 09/24/2013 02:27 PM, Richard Elkins wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:5241E7B3.9080308@gmail.com" type="cite">Okay,
I conducted a weird experiment. I pressed Ctrl-Alt-F1 and
pretended that the desktop was just covering up the getty login
screen. I proceeded to login as root and I rebooted the system
just using the keyboard without the benefit of being able to see
what I was typing. It worked.
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So, Ctrl-Alt-F{1,2,3,4,5,6} is indeed being processed but it looks
like Xorg or XFCE is covering up the getty login screen. Why???
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Still scratching my head. Any ideas?
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On 09/24/2013 01:22 PM, Richard Elkins wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">There are emergencies (E.g. hosed desktop)
when one would like to gather evidence and find out who is doing
what to whom -or- who is waiting for whom. I have always used
Ctrl-Alt-Fn to break out of desktops for this purpose. I would
have found this quite helpful in writing up a bug report
yesterday.
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Unfortunately, it seems that I cannot do this in Xubuntu which
is, of course, XFCE4-based - at least in the later releases.
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When I press Ctrl-Alt-F1/2/3/4/5/6, my keyboard and mouse are no
longer functional although the screen is still there. Is the
screen hiding the tty login prompt? My getty sessions are
running as evidenced by `ps ax | grep getty` in a terminal
window.
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Fortunately, when I press F7, I am taken back to normal desktop
operation.
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Could anyone shed some light on this? I really would like to
learn what component(s) are causing this anomalous behavior.
And, I'd like to fix this if possible. Again, if it is my
@#$%^&!!! Intel D2550MUD2 motherboard, I am going to sue
Intel into insolvency! (-:
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Thanks,
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Richard
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