>>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, I could kiss you. Thank you so much. - Grant
