Windows Key causes screen to blank

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ChipBender · Post by **ChipBender** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 4:08 pm

I'm very new to gentoo and while emerging kde I pressed the windows key on my keyboard. I have a standard US keyboard and layout with no funky keymappings.

My question is how do I get my screen back?

I've tried <CTRL>C, ESC and BREAK without success.

I don't want to resort to a CTRL-ALT-DEL.

Any help for a newbie?

chunderbunny · Post by **chunderbunny** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 5:05 pm

Try CTRL-ALT-Backspace. This is the command to shut down the Xserver, whereupon it should automatically start up again if you are using kdm.

ChipBender · Post by **ChipBender** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:17 pm

KDE isn't running yet. I'm still emerging it.

All I have is a blinking cursor in the upper left corner of my monitor.

Any other suggestions?

OT does it always take 10 hours to emerge a package like KDE?

chunderbunny · Post by **chunderbunny** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:36 pm

For KDE, yeah 10 hours is pretty fast. It took 3 days on one of my computers.

lynxnyl · Post by **lynxnyl** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:36 pm

alt+f1.

The winkey changes the virtual terminals in reverse, the last being some kind of logging one. So either winkey back or directly alt+f#.

ChipBender · Post by **ChipBender** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:48 pm

Alt-F1 did the trick.

Thanks a bunch!

Windows Key causes screen to blank

Windows Key causes screen to blank

Thanks... But I'm not even at KDE yet