On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Fred Smith <fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 09:03:51PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:
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> On 08/07/2015 08:41 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 08:23:40PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:
> >>
> >>On 08/07/2015 06:53 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> >>>On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 06:34:09PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:
> >>>>On 08/07/2015 05:14 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> >>>>>On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 03:15:57PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:
> >>>>>>On 08/07/2015 01:45 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> >>>>>>>On 08/07/2015 03:24 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> >>>>>>>>So, something changed, that has disabled the cntrl-alt-f keys.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Any clues how to restore it?
> >>>>>>>right click on menu icon->preference->keybord shortcut
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>For Mate DT, what icon are you referring to?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I have
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>There nothing there about shortcuts.
> >>>>>on my Centos-7 box, using MATE, there's both keyboard and
> >>>>>"keyboard shortcuts" on the "hardware" menu. I think
> >>>>>that's the one wanted.
> >>>>>
> >>>>On her fedora Mate,
> >>>>there is no
> >>>>System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> "keyboard shortcuts"
> >>>>
> >>>>What there is,
> >>>>System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> keyboard -> Accessibility (a
> >>>>tab) -> A checkmark for "Accessibility features can be toggled with
> >>>>keyboard shortcuts"
> >>>>
> >>>>But that does not provide anything to fix her problem.
> >>>>So, the issue might be with different mate config menus for
> >>>>different distros/versions ???
> >>>Yeah, I have that program too, but it's not the one needed.
> >>>
> >>>pls see if there are any other mate packages not installed:
> >>>
> >>>yum list available | grep -y mate
> >>>
> >>>perhaps one of them dthat isn't installed has the progrm you need.
> >>>
> >>>here is a list of all the mate packages I have installed, FYI:
> >>>libmatekbd.x86_64                     1.10.0-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>libmatemixer.x86_64                   1.10.0-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>libmateweather.x86_64                 1.10.0-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>libmateweather-data.noarch            1.10.0-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-applets.x86_64                   1.10.3-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-backgrounds.noarch               1.10.0-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-calc.x86_64                      1.8.0-1.el7                    @epel
> >>>mate-control-center.x86_64            1.10.1-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-control-center-filesystem.x86_64 1.10.1-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-desktop.x86_64                   1.10.1-2.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-desktop-libs.x86_64              1.10.1-2.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-dictionary.x86_64                1.10.2-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-disk-usage-analyzer.x86_64       1.10.2-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-icon-theme.noarch                1.10.1-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-icon-theme-faenza.noarch         1.10.0-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-media.x86_64                     1.10.0-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-menus.x86_64                     1.10.0-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-menus-libs.x86_64                1.10.0-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-menus-preferences-category-menu.x86_64
> >>>mate-notification-daemon.x86_64       1.10.0-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-panel.x86_64                     1.10.1-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-panel-libs.x86_64                1.10.1-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-polkit.x86_64                    1.10.0-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-power-manager.x86_64             1.10.1-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-screensaver.x86_64               1.10.2-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-screenshot.x86_64                1.10.2-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-search-tool.x86_64               1.10.2-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-session-manager.x86_64           1.10.2-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-settings-daemon.x86_64           1.10.1-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-system-log.x86_64                1.10.2-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-system-monitor.x86_64            1.10.1-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-terminal.x86_64                  1.10.1-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-themes.noarch                    1.10.1-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>mate-utils-common.noarch              1.10.2-1.el7                   @epel
> >>>
> >>>good luck!
> >>>
> >>>Fred
> >>>
> >>She has all of the packages you mention, except for libmatemixer,
> >>which is available in fedora 22 updates repo.
> >>But I do not think that the mixer has anything to do with my friend's
> >>problem at hand.
> >>
> >OK, I have one (or two) more suggesion(s):
> >on my centos system, the menu item for "keyboard shortcuts" maps
> >to the program named gnome-keybinding-properties.
> >
> >On a Fedora-21 VM I have, it links to mate-keybinding properties.
> >
> >so, if your friend has either of those two programs, that's the
> >one you need, at least for the purpose of checking out the earlier
> >suggestion from another poster.
> >
> >You don't even need to link it into the menus, you should be able
> >to run it from the commandline.
> >
> >Fred
> Fred, u r a lifesaver.
> On her system, it is /usr/bin/mate-keybinding-properties
>
> and that was the magic bullet!!!
>
> Many thanx!!!
>
> Cheers,
>
> JD

Glad I was able to help!

​I observed the following behavior on my friend's mate DT fedora installation:

while ctrl-alt-F(n) was not working, running chvt <n> [n=1...6]
was yielding an error message that it was not able to get a file
descriptor; whereas running chvt as root worked just fine.

I also observed that once chvt (as root) did switch to a vt, from that
vt, ctrl-alt-f(n) worked just fine.

So, there was something about X, or Mate that had precipitated the problem
in the first place. Just not sure what caused it.