Ctrl+Alt+F[1-7] doesn't work anymore

[infokiller]

When I set the misc:extend option in setxkbmap Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't take me to a virtual console anymore. Do you know what could cause that?

Thanks!

[DreymaR]

Yes, I do. I need to make people aware of this in my documentation. The 'XF86_SwitchVT#' keys that you're used to are implemented in XKB in the symbols "pc(function)" section (it's in your xkb/symbols directory). You're likely used to inheriting this via the standard 'pc' settings. My Extend file specifies new level5–8 mappings for the <FK##> (Function) keys, which unfortunately for you overwrites this behavior. I think you have to choose between the server F# keys and my multimedia ones.

Could you try this please, and let me know if it works for you? In the symbols/extend file under the 'lvl5' section, towards the end of the section, add a line that includes pc(function), like this (I show some existing lines to let you know where I mean, only the last line before the brace is added): // include "level5(caps_switch)" include "pc(function)" };

If that does the trick, it should be the easiest way to get what you want. If not, you'll have to delete or comment out the <FK##> lines from the extend file to get the rest of it without the F# key definitions.

If this works for you, I'll work it into my documentation.

Best of luck, Øystein "DreymaR"

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 10:56 AM, infokiller notifications@github.com wrote:

When I set the misc:extend option in setxkbmap Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't take me to a virtual console anymore Do you know what could cause that?

Thanks!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/DreymaR/BigBagKbdTricks_XKB/issues/2.

[infokiller]

Thanks! Adding the line didn't help, but when I disabled the function keys it indeed worked.

[DreymaR]

Grrr, I was hoping that re-including the pc(function) definitions after mine might overwrite the extend ones but no such luck then. Ah well, thanks for testing it! On Jan 1, 2016 7:04 PM, "infokiller" notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks! Adding the line didn't help, but when I disabled the function keys it indeed worked.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/DreymaR/BigBagKbdTricks_XKB/issues/2#issuecomment-168322129 .

[DreymaR]

Hey – could you try this then? Replace the line in the extend file

with this bit (leaving the 'actions' bit below as it was):

key <FK01> { symbols[Group1]=[ NoSymbol , NoSymbol , NoSymbol ,

NoSymbol , XF86AudioPlay , XF86AudioPause , // Play/Pause XF86_Switch_VT_1 , XF86_Switch_VT_1 ], // Virtual Terminal // key { symbols[Group1]=[ NoSymbol,NoSymbol,NoSymbol,NoSymbol,

XF86AudioPlay , XF86AudioPause ],

What I'm trying to achieve here is making Caps+AltGr(or LCtrl+RAlt if that's set up as AltGr)+ to act as the virtual terminal 1 switch. There might still be a problem with the Level5 CapsState, but please try it.

best, Øystein

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Øystein Bech Gadmar obgadmar@gmail.com wrote:

Grrr, I was hoping that re-including the pc(function) definitions after mine might overwrite the extend ones but no such luck then. Ah well, thanks for testing it! On Jan 1, 2016 7:04 PM, "infokiller" notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks! Adding the line didn't help, but when I disabled the function keys it indeed worked.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/DreymaR/BigBagKbdTricks_XKB/issues/2#issuecomment-168322129 .

[infokiller]

Didn't work, but there's more than a decent chance that I'm doing something wrong- I don't know much about the xkb syntax and it's quite reasonable I made a subtle mistake. BTW, in both cases after doing the change and installing the files setxkbmap gives an uninformative error: Error loading new keyboard description.

[DreymaR]

Yup, in that case you likely messed up. Easily done! Even in verbose mode, I don't think you'll get much more info. Guess I'll have to look into it. On Jan 2, 2016 1:53 PM, "infokiller" notifications@github.com wrote:

Didn't work, but there's more than a decent chance that I'm doing something wrong- I don't know much about the xkb syntax and it's quite reasonable I made a subtle mistake. BTW, in both cases after doing the change and installing the files setxkbmap gives an uninformative error: Error loading new keyboard description.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/DreymaR/BigBagKbdTricks_XKB/issues/2#issuecomment-168388727 .

[tecosaur]

So what's the suggestion here? I'd quite like to leave Ctrl+Alt+F1-7 and Alt+SysRq as is, but I'm not sure what I should do…

[DreymaR]

To leave the Ctrl+Alt+F# console functions alone, for now you'll have to forgo those keys' Extend functionality. Find the symbols/extend file and comment out those keys. In a future commit, I may put those in a separate section so you could disable them all using one line.

The SysRq key shouldn't be influenced by my files afaik. If I did include an Extend mapping for it, comment that out likewise.