On 4 February 2015 10:54:31 AM AEST, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I send a system image of my laptop to various other laptops of the
>same make and model which they use to operate.  I wrote a script for
>this and it works great.  I've run into a situation where a particular
>new (used) laptop works fine but the Alt+F2 shortcut to open the
>program launcher in xfce4 doesn't work and I can't switch to VTs 1-3
>with Ctrl+Alt+F1/F2/F3.  VT4 works but then VT7 doesn't bring back the
>desktop.  I'm not sure what this is pointing to.  Any ideas?
>

Some laptops have a bios option to switch the behavior of the Fn key such that 
you need to press Fn+F2 to send a F2 key. The bare F1/F2/.. send the extra 
keys, such as volume controls and screen brightness. It might be worth checking 
if Fn+Alt+F2 does what you want.

Bruce

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