2011/6/2 Patrick Shanahan :

* Andre Massing [06-02-11 09:56]:

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 Finally after many years of absence I change from Debian /Ubuntu back  to what is "now" opensuse (it was really a long time ago :) ) and let  me just say that I am very impressed and satisfied with the overall  experience and appearance of opensuse.

welcome back.

Thanks :)

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 But I have an issue with switching back from a tty session to the x11  session via CTRL-ALT-F7 key kombination.  Switching from the x11  sessions to one of the ttys works fine.  So I was wondering whether  this is a known issue (I did not find anything similar in bugzilla)?  And how could I easily access the keyboard mapping within the tty, just  to quickly check if the keymap in the tty is the same as in the x11  session.

It is possible that you X11 session is not on tty7; try <ctrl><alt><f8> or <ctrl><alt><f9>.

Oh, I was a bit "overprecise" I meant to say that the "ALT-CTRL-F<1-8>" key combination does not work at all, so I cannot switch between tty, nothing happens when I use it. So my suspicion is that for some reasons the keyboard layout changes when I switch from an x11 session to a tty since at least I can change *from* the KDE sessions to the tty, but back to or between the the tty. But I have actually no clue what is going on and that's just a blind guess. Any hints are welcome! Cheers, Andre

I have restarted X and found the new session occasionally on tty8 rather than the normal and expected tty7.  And this is probably my own fault for fiddling with more than one desktop at a time.

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 I am on opensuse 11.4 with a macbook pro 6.2 and I remember that I had  some trouble with the Fn keys and used a hid-apple kernel module under  ubuntu, but as far as I remember the key mapping was consistent.  (A  possible related issue that sometimes that monitors hangs on tty after  suspend to ram, not getting back to the x11 session)

I have very minimal usage of the *buntu's and cannot help here.

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2011/6/3 Ken Schneider - openSUSE :

On 06/02/2011 01:34 PM, Andre Massing pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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It is possible that you X11 session is not on tty7; try<ctrl><alt><f8>  or <ctrl><alt><f9>.

Oh, I was a bit "overprecise" I meant to say that the "ALT-CTRL-F<1-8>" key combination does not work at all,

Then there is no way to get to a tty session as <CTRL><ALT>F[1-6] key combo is the only way to go from an "X11" session to a tty session. Or are you perhaps using VirtualBox and having the problem?

No, I am on a plain opensuse 11.4. The problem is: I can switch _from_ a X11 session to a tty[1-6] via <CTRL><ALT>F[1-6], but not _back_ with the same key combo (nor between the ttys), which is strange. The only way to switch between the ttys or back to X11 is via <COMMAND> Sorry for being so imprecise today, was a short night :) BTW, do you know where is this key-combo defined? Kind regards, Andre -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:15:57 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

It is possible that you X11 session is not on tty7; try <ctrl><alt><f8> or <ctrl><alt><f9>.

To switch between ttys you only need <alt><Fn>, only under X you need to use <ctrl><alt><Fn>. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org