Magic Sysreg key problems.

[Joe Zeff]

On 08/20/2012 01:12 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> In non-graphical mode it's just Alt+SysRq (not Ctrl, and not Alt+Ctrl),
> but the GUI can choose to ignore the combination - there used to be some
> X keyboard setting you could set globally, but it doesn't work anymore.
> I think there's some workaround for gnome, but I never did figure out
> how to make it work right in XFCE.

I've found on my desktop that if I'm at an alternate terminal, without 
the GUI being active, I can usually get it to work if I use the right 
Alt key, but not the left; if start with the Control key, however, it 
works just fine with either Alt key.  So far, I've not tried it on my 
laptop.