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How to send Ctrl+Alt+F1 (and other special keystrokes) to X window?
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When I press Ctrl+Alt+F{1..12}, it switches me to other virtual terminal. Even leads to switching to vt instead of sending that keys to focused window. Use cases of this includes (but not limits to) sending special keystrokes to VNC or virtualization clients to be handled by clinet/guest system ins…
Error Output
xte "keydown Control_L" "keydown Alt_L" "key F1" "keyup Alt_L" "keyup Control_L"
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Let's call Ctrl+Alt+Fx (where Fx is one of function buttons: F1, F2, F3...) srvr keys. There is a way to disable/enable srvr keys on the fly. By disabling I mean that X11 do not swallow them, but passes to window manager (kwin in kde). For diabling …
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