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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

German Guillot wrote:
> On 4/8/07, James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > For now KDE wins--it's dead easy to switch to Gnome (or, I suppose,
>> > whatever other session is open), just ask it to switch. Whereas from
>> > Gnome, from what I can see, you ask to switch user and you're taken to
>> > the login screen, where you have to give your login information again,
>> > and then click on "no, it's ok thanks, I don't want to log in again
>> > I'll just return to the previous session). Takes longer and includes
>> > several more steps. 1-0 for KDE, so far.
>> > g
>> Does Alt-Fn not work in Gnome?  For example in KDE, if I want to switch
>> to the 2nd desktop, I press Alt F7 and then Alt F6 to go back.
>
> Hm, not the same thing here. Right now I'm logged in, with the same
> user, to both KDE and Gnome (KDE came first). From neither of them
> does Alt F7 have any effect on the session I see. I can go to other
> shells with Ctrl-Alt F1-6, and once there a simple Alt F# takes me to
> any of the other sessions, 1-6 for the log-in shells and 7 for the
> graphic desktop. But, no matter from which desktop I switched to the
> shell (1-6), once in the shell Alt F7 will always take me to KDE (I
> assume this is because I logged in there first, which is why I
> mentioned it).
>
> But the behaviour you describe does not occur here. Perhaps it's
> configurable?
That was a typo in my message.  It should have been Ctrl-Alt-Fn.


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