[508] in athena10
Re: Suggested amendments to the Athena10 docs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Sep 16 18:25:09 2008
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <258D0F9E-2486-4704-9381-1B22DFFE9C41@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:24:23 -0400
We can, though I'd rather see IS&T-wide recommendations to set the
VMware preferences to a less stupid key combination, specifically
because that key combination you described is going to be a nightmare
to explain over the phone.
-Jon
On Sep 16, 2008, at 6:13 PM, William Cattey wrote:
> 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
>
