Weird problem alt+fx = alt+ctrl+fx ??!

Hi, I'm having a weird issue here and I don't have a clue what the problem might be...
When I press alt+f4 (for instance) my system acts like I pressed alt+ctrl+f4 changing to the tty4 console, I don't know why it might be, I'm running gnome + compiz and I don't see anything that may be causing this, any clues someone?
Thanks.
Edit: I just noticed, it does run the alt+f4 (closing the focused window) but it also changes to the tty4...
Last edited by uorbe001 (2009-05-28 21:44:08)

WonderWoofy wrote:I'm not sure about your VT issue, but if you set the 'terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp' option with setxkbmap or loginctl, does it work then?
I tried setxkbmap before without success.
Also tried:
localectl set-x11-keymap "us" "" "" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
Not sure how to go about using loginctl to do the same thing.
Last edited by H3g3m0n (2015-04-01 03:25:35)

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