How do I disable the keyboard shortcut "ctrl+alt+F6" on Ubuntu 7.04, so when I hit it, nothing happens?

Ubuntu replaced init with upstart event daemon. I'm not sure if that matters, but know you know.

Thanks,
Drew

Why would you want to do that? If you don't want to open another terminal (the default for most linuxes), don't press those keys, or even "ctrl+alt+[F1-5]"

You can disable switching to virtual terminals with the DontVTSwitch xorg.conf option.

@tredegar,
I'm trying to send the keyboard shortcut "shift+ctrl+alt+F6" over a remote desktop connection to a PC running windows XP professional. It has Faronics Deepfreeze installed on it and this keyboard shortcut will allow me to temporarily shut it off. Though when I try to send this keyboard shortcut from Linux, it switches me to tty6.

Now that the "why?" is answered, on to the original question of "How do I disable this shortcut?".

I've been told that (Option "DontVTSwitch" "true") in the xorg.conf will disable all of it. That is a solution but I'd rather disable just tty6.

What daemon is listening for this keyboard shortcut and is it hard coded?


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@tredegar, sorry if I sounded rude there about your why. It is a strange thing to want to do but a zero reply tread has a much better chance of getting answered.

The X Server handles the keyboard key presses, and performs the VT Switch on that sequence.

@Matir, what handles that keypress when there is no X server?

Nothing does. The normal virtual terminals respond to Alt+Fn, which I believe would be handled by Getty.

very nice. Thank you.