From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 Description of problem: If I add a keyboard layout switcher applet to the gnome panel, ctrl-alt-f1, ctrl-alt-f2, etc. no longer work, and I am unable to switch virtual terminals. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-applets-2.2.0-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add a keyboard layout switcher applet to the gnome panel. 2. Press ctrl-alt-f1. Actual Results: Nothing will happen. Expected Results: Virtual terminal 1 should have appeared. Additional info: If I run xev, and I press ctrl-alt-f1, xev reports ctrl-alt-f11. If I remove the keyboard layout switcher applet from the panel, everything goes back to normal. I suspect it may be a bug in /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.us.
In addition to the desktop switching, in my case I also am unable to do Alt-Tab switching between apps when I use the keyboard switching tool. The problem seems to be with gkb_xmmap. If I use setxkbmap instead: setxkbmap us_intl instead of gkb_xmmap us-int even inside the gnome keyboard layout switcher, everything seems to be fine. Sorry if it isn't the same bug...
I definitely have this same bug. I switched the keyboard applet from using gkb_xmmap to using setxkbmap and virtual terminals now work fine. Doing this seems to disable the new keyboard in terminals, but this is perhaps a benefit since I rarely want a non-english character in a terminal. Why are there soooo many ways to switch keyboards? Is there a correct one to use?
Is this still a problem in Fedora Core 2?
This bug seems to be fixed in FC2.
Thanks much for verifying that