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#1 2010-06-02 23:30:27

MickST
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Pressing Alt+F4 closes the current window but also chages to tty4.

Hello, I don't know what may be causing this, but I've just realized that pressing Alt+F4 changes to tty4 besides closing the current window.

I'm running Gnome here, does anybody happen to come across this?

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#2 2010-06-02 23:41:59

schen
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Re: Pressing Alt+F4 closes the current window but also chages to tty4.

Alt+f4 is the way to change to tty4, change back by pressing alt+f7.

alt+f3 is for tty3, and so on.

Last edited by schen (2010-06-02 23:42:28)

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#3 2010-06-02 23:59:19

MickST
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Re: Pressing Alt+F4 closes the current window but also chages to tty4.

I thought the way to change to the different tty was Ctrl+Alt+Fn, I don't recall pressing Alt+F4 and going to a tty before :S.

Thank you.

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#4 2010-06-03 00:24:43

vi3dr0
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Re: Pressing Alt+F4 closes the current window but also chages to tty4.

MickST wrote:

I thought the way to change to the different tty was Ctrl+Alt+Fn, I don't recall pressing Alt+F4 and going to a tty before :S.

It is. Pressing Alt+F4 while in X session shouldn't bring you to tty.


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#5 2010-06-03 01:18:23

ngoonee
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Re: Pressing Alt+F4 closes the current window but also chages to tty4.

Happened to me before, tried figuring out what caused it but the fact that it never recurred meant I couldn't be bothered. Just restart, it should be fine after. I was thinking Ctrl might be 'stuck', but xev doesn't show that.


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#6 2010-06-03 01:45:47

MickST
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Re: Pressing Alt+F4 closes the current window but also chages to tty4.

Thank you for the answer, xev doesn't show the Ctrl key stuck here either.

Rebooting doesn't seem to get it back to normal, using Arch's stock kernel produces the same behaviour.

I feel I may end up reinstalling the complete system or forgetting about Alt+F4 to close things.

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#7 2010-06-03 01:54:44

schen
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Re: Pressing Alt+F4 closes the current window but also chages to tty4.

Alt-f4 is also the windows way to close things(I think) Perhaps GNOME is accommodating for windows users?

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#8 2010-06-03 01:55:47

MickST
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Re: Pressing Alt+F4 closes the current window but also chages to tty4.

Doesn't an Alt+F4 close the current app in other DEs?

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