[507] in athena10
Re: Suggested amendments to the Athena10 docs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Tue Sep 16 18:14:15 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:13:31 -0400
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
Hold Ctrl+Alt and hit Space and then F1 (or Fn) without releasing Ctrl
+Alt
worked!
jdreed: Can we add a footnote:
Press Ctrl-Alt-F1<footnote>
<footnote> If you are in a virtual environment where the host
interprets Ctrl+Alt key sequences you hold Ctrl+Alt and hit Space and
then F1 (or your desired Fn key) without releasing Ctrl+Alt
-Bill
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On Sep 16, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>> By the way, step #4 does not work under VMware on a Red Hat system,
>> because ctrl-alt-f1 never gets to VMware. The X server grabs it. (I
>> couldn't figure out how to deal with that, so I just ssh'd in.)
>
> I'm pretty sure there's a way to do this. Googling gets:
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Setting_up_SUSE_Linux_as_a_VMware_Guest
> which suggests:
> Hold Ctrl+Alt and hit Space and then F1 (or Fn) without releasing
> Ctrl+Alt. This will invoke the Ctrl-Alt-F1 on the guest OS.
>
> Jonathon
