Comment # 1 on bug 1193327 from Stefan Hundhammer

With "command line" you mean the NCurses (text-based) version?

I just tried with different terminal emulators, and it turned out that some of
them "eat" those Alt-Fxx keys for their own use. But that's not a problem of
YaST, but of those terminal emulators.

For example xfce4-terminal uses Alt-F1 to switch to tab #1, Alt-F2 to tab #2;
it consumes those key combinations even if you only have one single tab open,
so that key combination really does nothing.

I could imagine that gnome-terminal or KDE's "konsole" behave in similar ways.
It is also possible that there are some settings in any of those where you can
configure that behavior so you can use the key combination for your (i.e. some
application's) purposes rather than having them consumed by the terminal
emulator.

With xterm, this works fine.

On the system console (Ctrl-Alt-F1; back with Ctrl-Alt-F7) once you are on a
text console, Alt-F2 switches to text console #2, Alt-F1 to #1 etc.


So there are certainly cases where some of those accelerator keys that we use
in YaST don't work. In that case, you have to use the [Tab] key. That's
unfortunate, but cannot be avoided. Sorry for the inconvenience.