<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Fred Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us" target="_blank">fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 09:03:51PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:<br>
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> On 08/07/2015 08:41 PM, Fred Smith wrote:<br>
> >On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 08:23:40PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >>On 08/07/2015 06:53 PM, Fred Smith wrote:<br>
> >>>On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 06:34:09PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:<br>
> >>>>On 08/07/2015 05:14 PM, Fred Smith wrote:<br>
> >>>>>On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 03:15:57PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:<br>
> >>>>>>On 08/07/2015 01:45 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:<br>
> >>>>>>>On 08/07/2015 03:24 PM, jd1008 wrote:<br>
> >>>>>>>>So, something changed, that has disabled the cntrl-alt-f keys.<br>
> >>>>>>>><br>
> >>>>>>>>Any clues how to restore it?<br>
> >>>>>>>right click on menu icon->preference->keybord shortcut<br>
> >>>>>>><br>
> >>>>>>For Mate DT, what icon are you referring to?<br>
> >>>>>><br>
> >>>>>>I have<br>
> >>>>>><br>
> >>>>>>System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard<br>
> >>>>>><br>
> >>>>>>There nothing there about shortcuts.<br>
> >>>>>on my Centos-7 box, using MATE, there's both keyboard and<br>
> >>>>>"keyboard shortcuts" on the "hardware" menu. I think<br>
> >>>>>that's the one wanted.<br>
> >>>>><br>
> >>>>On her fedora Mate,<br>
> >>>>there is no<br>
> >>>>System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> "keyboard shortcuts"<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>>What there is,<br>
> >>>>System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> keyboard -> Accessibility (a<br>
> >>>>tab) -> A checkmark for "Accessibility features can be toggled with<br>
> >>>>keyboard shortcuts"<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>>But that does not provide anything to fix her problem.<br>
> >>>>So, the issue might be with different mate config menus for<br>
> >>>>different distros/versions ???<br>
> >>>Yeah, I have that program too, but it's not the one needed.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>>pls see if there are any other mate packages not installed:<br>
> >>><br>
> >>>yum list available | grep -y mate<br>
> >>><br>
> >>>perhaps one of them dthat isn't installed has the progrm you need.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>>here is a list of all the mate packages I have installed, FYI:<br>
> >>>libmatekbd.x86_64 1.10.0-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>libmatemixer.x86_64 1.10.0-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>libmateweather.x86_64 1.10.0-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>libmateweather-data.noarch 1.10.0-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-applets.x86_64 1.10.3-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-backgrounds.noarch 1.10.0-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-calc.x86_64 1.8.0-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-control-center.x86_64 1.10.1-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-control-center-filesystem.x86_64 1.10.1-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-desktop.x86_64 1.10.1-2.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-desktop-libs.x86_64 1.10.1-2.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-dictionary.x86_64 1.10.2-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-disk-usage-analyzer.x86_64 1.10.2-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-icon-theme.noarch 1.10.1-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-icon-theme-faenza.noarch 1.10.0-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-media.x86_64 1.10.0-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-menus.x86_64 1.10.0-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-menus-libs.x86_64 1.10.0-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-menus-preferences-category-menu.x86_64<br>
> >>>mate-notification-daemon.x86_64 1.10.0-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-panel.x86_64 1.10.1-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-panel-libs.x86_64 1.10.1-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-polkit.x86_64 1.10.0-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-power-manager.x86_64 1.10.1-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-screensaver.x86_64 1.10.2-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-screenshot.x86_64 1.10.2-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-search-tool.x86_64 1.10.2-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-session-manager.x86_64 1.10.2-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-settings-daemon.x86_64 1.10.1-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-system-log.x86_64 1.10.2-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-system-monitor.x86_64 1.10.1-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-terminal.x86_64 1.10.1-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-themes.noarch 1.10.1-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>>mate-utils-common.noarch 1.10.2-1.el7 @epel<br>
> >>><br>
> >>>good luck!<br>
> >>><br>
> >>>Fred<br>
> >>><br>
> >>She has all of the packages you mention, except for libmatemixer,<br>
> >>which is available in fedora 22 updates repo.<br>
> >>But I do not think that the mixer has anything to do with my friend's<br>
> >>problem at hand.<br>
> >><br>
> >OK, I have one (or two) more suggesion(s):<br>
> >on my centos system, the menu item for "keyboard shortcuts" maps<br>
> >to the program named gnome-keybinding-properties.<br>
> ><br>
> >On a Fedora-21 VM I have, it links to mate-keybinding properties.<br>
> ><br>
> >so, if your friend has either of those two programs, that's the<br>
> >one you need, at least for the purpose of checking out the earlier<br>
> >suggestion from another poster.<br>
> ><br>
> >You don't even need to link it into the menus, you should be able<br>
> >to run it from the commandline.<br>
> ><br>
> >Fred<br>
> Fred, u r a lifesaver.<br>
> On her system, it is /usr/bin/mate-keybinding-properties<br>
><br>
> and that was the magic bullet!!!<br>
><br>
> Many thanx!!!<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
><br>
> JD<br>
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</div></div>Glad I was able to help!<br>
<span class=""></span></blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">I observed the following behavior on my friend's mate DT fedora installation:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">while ctrl-alt-F(n) was not working, running chvt <n> [n=1...6]<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">was yielding an error message that it was not able to get a file<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">descriptor; whereas running chvt as root worked just fine.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">I also observed that once chvt (as root) did switch to a vt, from that<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">vt, ctrl-alt-f(n) worked just fine.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">So, there was something about X, or Mate that had precipitated the problem<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">in the first place. Just not sure what caused it.<br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>