Schraalhans Keukenmeester wrote:
> Besides my 'real' Linux box I am experimenting with it also on my
> Windoze machine in a VMware environment. Works quite smoothly btw on a
> HyperThreading machine, much better than on my previous box.
>
> Problem is Ctrl-Alt is caught by VMware as a sign I want to get the
> focus back to Windows. Does anyone know how I can assign a different
> keycode perhaps in Linux to be able to switch consoles once I am in X/KDE ?
>
> (Next step might be Windows in a VM on a Linux box, better option
> perhaps... I still need Windows for my photo-stuff and I like my
> www-editor and PHP-edit too much to let go yet.)
>
> Thanks!
> Schraalhans

Looks like I just found a fix. VMware itself has a solution.
Ctr-Alt-Space followed by the required Function key does the trick.

Thanks anyway for all who read and gave it some thought! Maybe now it
will help someone else too. (Still curious whether it's possible to
change the keyboard combo in Linux. As the most configurable OS I know
it would surprise me if it isn't possible)

Rgds
Schraalhans.

[Schraalhans Keukenmeester]
> Thanks anyway for all who read and gave it some thought! Maybe now it
> will help someone else too. (Still curious whether it's possible to
> change the keyboard combo in Linux. As the most configurable OS I know
> it would surprise me if it isn't possible)

Of course it's possible, though I'm not sure how to do it in X. The
keyboard settings in X is a quite different story from the keyboard
settings in the console. (I did this in the console while using the
"happy hacker"-keyboard once - the happy hacker comes without F-keys,
and pressing alt+fn+1 was just too much hazzle, so I remapped it to
just the F-keys without alt).

It's also nice to be aware of the command line version, chvt(1)
(eventually switchto(1) in some operating systems / distributions).

(is Schraalhans Keukenmeester your real name? To me it sounds like a
very noisy, a bit drunken guy - most probably German, except it should
probably be "meister" instead of "meester" then ;-)

--
Tobias Brox, Tromsø, Arctic

Tobias Brox wrote:
> [Schraalhans Keukenmeester]
>
>>Thanks anyway for all who read and gave it some thought! Maybe now it
>>will help someone else too. (Still curious whether it's possible to
>>change the keyboard combo in Linux. As the most configurable OS I know
>>it would surprise me if it isn't possible)
>
>
> Of course it's possible, though I'm not sure how to do it in X. The
> keyboard settings in X is a quite different story from the keyboard
> settings in the console. (I did this in the console while using the
> "happy hacker"-keyboard once - the happy hacker comes without F-keys,
> and pressing alt+fn+1 was just too much hazzle, so I remapped it to
> just the F-keys without alt).
>
> It's also nice to be aware of the command line version, chvt(1)
> (eventually switchto(1) in some operating systems / distributions).
>
> (is Schraalhans Keukenmeester your real name? To me it sounds like a
> very noisy, a bit drunken guy - most probably German, except it should
> probably be "meister" instead of "meester" then ;-)
>
Hi Tobias, thanks for the pointers. Will def have a looksee.

No Schraalhans is not my real name. Schraalhans Keukenmeester is a
'proverbial' name in Dutch, used to describe a situation of utter
scarcity. For instance, during winter 1944, the worst winter in the war
for most Dutch, many died of malnutrition, Schraalhans Keukenmeester was
said to rule.
Keuken means kitchen, meester in this context would translate to chef I
guess. Schraal is closely related to scarce, or poor. Hans of course is
just a name.

I was amazed to find the first part of this typical Dutch 'name' was
still available as a handle on hotmail, so I took that as well.

All that said, I can be found drunk sometimes, but when I am noisy
doesn't really apply. More: hippiestyle in love with all the world, with
a talent for scoring birds less fortunate in the looks department.

Rgds
Schraalhans ;-)

[Tobias Brox]
> Keuken means kitchen, meester in this context would translate to chef I
> guess. Schraal is closely related to scarce, or poor. Hans of course is
> just a name.

Ah, very different. In Norwegian, "Skråle" could be a verb for only
talking bull**** ("Skraale" in ASCII), and "Kauke" could be a verb for
yelling or talking laudly, so "Skrålhans Kaukemester" would be a drunk
German ;-) When thinking of it, "Skral" is like weak or meager, and I
think I've heard "Skralhans" beeing used for a poor situation, though
never "Skralhans Kjøkkenmester" :-)

--
Tobias Brox