On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Laing, Robin <Robin.Laing@drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:

On 2014-06-22 13:20, JD wrote:
> Using Mate on FC20, with latest updates.
> Cntrl-Alt-F keys never worked from the very first login into Mate Desktop.
>
> These are the installed mate packages. Am I missing something?
>
> It my be worthwhile to note that at the login screen, Cntrl-Alt-F keys DO
> WORK!!
> After login, into mate desktop, they stop working.
>

Is there something that is happening to the keyboard mapping? My
keyboards require a function key to be set to use the Function keys. Is
this being reset when Mate starts?

showkey can be used to see if they are working.

On my keyboard, if the F lock button is not pushed, then the keys send
anything.

xkeycaps as well.

​My KB is the laptop's KB (Dell Latitude E6500)

There is no F-Lock key that I can see.​

Tried showkey and pressed Cntrl-Alt-F2

# showkey
kb mode was ?UNKNOWN?
[ if you are trying this under X, it might not work
since the X server is also reading /dev/console ]
press any key (program terminates 10s after last keypress)...

​By the above warning, it seems useless to try showkey under X

But here goes ....​

keycode 29 press
keycode 56 press
keycode 60 press
keycode 60 release
keycode 56 release
keycode 29 release

​And still no effect.​

​xkeycaps fails to detect my type of keyboard and assumes a 101 key PC keyboard,

which is not the case. 

The GUI does not allow scrolling the KB type list so I can select the right KB.

I tried to scroll it with the mouse and with the up/down arrow keys to not avail. I tried to drage the scroll bar of each columns in the KB config GUI,

again to no avail.
​