I just tested this in a Xubuntu session
with xfce desktop on 12.04 64 bit and I do not have this problem.
On 09/24/2013 02:27 PM, Richard Elkins wrote:
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.
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???
Still scratching my head. Any ideas?
On 09/24/2013 01:22 PM, Richard Elkins wrote:
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.
Unfortunately, it seems that I cannot do this in Xubuntu which
is, of course, XFCE4-based - at least in the later releases.
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.
Fortunately, when I press F7, I am taken back to normal desktop
operation.
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! (-:
Thanks,
Richard
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