Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

[JD]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Paul Cartwright 
wrote:
> On 06/23/2014 03:20 PM, JD wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Laing, Robin
> > <[e-mail] >
>
> wrote:
> > On 2014-06-22 13:20, JD wrote:
> > > Using Mate on FC20, with latest updates.
> > > Cntrl-Alt-F keys never worked from the very first login into
> > Mate Desktop.
> > >
> > > These are the installed mate packages. Am I missing something?
> > >
> > > It my be worthwhile to note that at the login screen,
> > Cntrl-Alt-F keys DO
> > > WORK!!
> > > After login, into mate desktop, they stop working.
> > >
> >
> > Is there something that is happening to the keyboard mapping?  My
> > keyboards require a function key to be set to use the Function
> > keys.  Is
> > this being reset when Mate starts?
> >
> >
> > showkey can be used to see if they are working.
> >
> > On my keyboard, if the F lock button is not pushed, then the keys
>
> send
> > anything.
> >
> >
> > xkeycaps as well.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ​My KB is the laptop's KB (Dell Latitude E6500)
> > There is no F-Lock key that I can see.​
> > Tried showkey and pressed Cntrl-Alt-F2
> >
> > # showkey
> > kb mode was ?UNKNOWN?
> > [ if you are trying this under X, it might not work
> > since the X server is also reading /dev/console ]
> > press any key (program terminates 10s after last keypress)...
> >
> > ​By the above warning, it seems useless to try showkey under X
> > But here goes ....​
> >
> > keycode  29 press
> > keycode  56 press
> > keycode  60 press
> > keycode  60 release
> > keycode  56 release
> > keycode  29 release
> >
> > ​And still no effect.​
> >
> > ​xkeycaps fails to detect my type of keyboard and assumes a 101 key PC
> > keyboard,
> > which is not the case.
> >
> > The GUI does not allow scrolling the KB type list so I can select the
> > right KB.
> > I tried to scroll it with the mouse and with the up/down arrow keys to
> > not avail. I tried to drage the scroll bar of each columns in the KB
> > config GUI,
> > again to no avail.
> > ​
>
> maybe modify your keyboard layout??
>
> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/37617/how-to-change-the-keyboard-l...
>
> If you didn't have the graphical way or localectl. You could edit or
> create the file /etc/locale.conf and if you were en_US.UTF-8 (replace
> with the Spanish-Latin America equivalent). You would place in
> /etc/locale.conf
>
> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>
> Also you would edit or create the file /etc/vconsole.conf and if you
> were in the U.S.A (replace with the Spanish-Latin America equivalent).
> You would place in /etc/vconsole.conf

​The real question is: Why did not Anaconda correctly detect my KB type
so that programs like xkeycaps would not have to guess the wrong KB type?