ctrl-alt-+ doesn't work for me

Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net
Tue Sep 7 15:37:28 UTC 2010


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).

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