[SOLVED] Suddenly, ONE key to change between tty consoles?

DNAspark99 · Guru Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 321

Hello.

Recently updated one of my gentoo VM's (which is running through vmware-fusion on a mac) to the latest version of everything (baselayout2, openRC)

Once finished, one thing I've noticed is that suddenly I am able to change between the tty consoles with the touch of a button ('command' key on mac, *think* this is mapped to the equivalent of the 'winkey' on PCs).
Problem is, the command to break the window focus so I can return mouse input to the (OSX) desktop is: ctrl+command
Now, every time I need to leave the VM for a minute, it automatically switched consoles on me, and I have to cycle through the other (11) tty's to get back to my work. Rather frustrating.

Is there a way to revert this 'console switching' keystroke back to whatever it was before?
Is this controlled in one of the new config layouts??

Any help would be much appreciated, Thanks!

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

DNAspark99 · Guru Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 321

Unfortunately, changing to windowkeys="NO" in /etc/conf.d/keymaps does not alter this behavior

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

ewwww i was having hope it might be that, dispatch-conf if you didn't, and if you did, might be a bit late, but if you can remember what config files were update, culprit should be in it.
I think also it would have been better to ask that to PPC section no?
if you didn't maybe rebuild xf86-input-evdev (but i'm out of suggest, that one is weak, but can't think about a better one)

DNAspark99 · Guru Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 321

Yes, I ran dispatch-conf after updating. I don't have X installed on this, so xf86-input-evdev isn't even merged in.

Seems I've figured it out anyways.

It looks like once booted with 'windowkeys=YES' in /etc/conf.d/keymap, setting this to 'NO' does not actually reverse/undo the setting where it needs it.

Discovered this by editing: /lib/rc/console/keymap

Changed:

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

i'm not familiar with it, was just guessing it should be keymaps because of the function name in it, so it might be "normal" behavior.

anyway, glad it's fix, this kind of weirdness can make us mad

now that it's solve, you should report yourself to make that thread move to gentoo ppc, as chance someone with a mac keyboard face the same error will be more than happy to find your solve.

DNAspark99 · Guru Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 321

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

todays mac only got the name: cpu, bus... difference for a pc and a mac is the sticker put on it (maybe you shouldn't ask to move that to ppc section after that comment, they will hunt me!)

but the main error is using windows key in keymaps with a mac keyboard : enabling/disabling it with a PC keyboard does nothing as we don't own a "mac" key -> 'command' key on mac as you call it.

That's why i suppose ppc section is better to find people with a "mac command keyboard" owner users

acidrums4 · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:03 pm Post subject:

I had the same issue after updating, on monday,

yzh · n00b Joined: 25 Feb 2011 Posts: 53

This works:

Set /etc/conf.d/keymaps:

acidrums4 · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:32 pm Post subject:

I'm having still this issue. Deleting /lib/rc/console/keymap and rebooting didn't did the trick for me

yzh · n00b Joined: 25 Feb 2011 Posts: 53

acidrums4 · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:44 pm Post subject:

yep, and I've tried with each possible combination of uppercase and lowercase words, and putting it in /etc/rc.conf ... but this is still annoying me.

DNAspark99 · Guru Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 321

hey awesome, finally got around to setting up another VM, noticed the issue again, and eventually found this solution. (remove /lib/rc/console/keymap)

thanks!

charles17 · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3664