ctrl-alt-+ doesn't work for me
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Sep 20 16:24:06 UTC 2010
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 10:37 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 09/07/2010 01:46 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > I want to be able to use ctrl-alt-+ or ctrl-alt-- to cycle between X
> > modes (resolutions etc). This should allow me to fix the display from
> > the keyboard of the afflicted machine by blindly typing ctrl-alt-+ twice
> > (with this display there are only two modelines synthesized by X).
> >
> > ctrl-alt-+ does not work for me on F13. I don't know when it
> > disappeared. Perhaps when ctrl-alt-backspace was retired.
>
> I believe that the ability to change video resolution from the X server
> went away when graphic mode setting was moved into the kernel. Yes, I
> miss that too (running F-12).
>
> --
> Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
> Do NOT delete it.
>
Many of these key sequences do work if you know how to se set them. For
example ctrl-alt-backspace works as follows:
1. Open the Keyboard Preferences dialog either by choosing System >
Preferences > Keyboard from the Fedora Main Menu or by running the
following command from a terminal:
gnome-keyboard-properties
2. In the Keyboard Preferences dialog, choose the Layouts tab (labeled
1 in the screenshot below) and press the Layout Options button (labeled
2 in the screenshot below) to bring up the Keyboard Layout Options
dialog.
Screenshot-Keyboard Preferences
Keyboard Preferences dialog
3. In the Keyboard Layout Options dialog, unfold the tree item “Key
sequence to kill the X server” (labeled 3 in the screenshot below), and
mark the checkbox “Control + Alt + Backspace” (labeled 4 in the
screenshot below)
Screenshot-Keyboard Layout Options
Keyboard Layout Options dialog
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