Alt F2 No Longer Does Anything!

[mrgnash]

Exactly like the topic says... Pressing Alt + F2 in conjunction no longer brings up the run dialogue It's very annoying and I don't know how to go about fixing it. I would be very grateful if anyone could shed some light on this dilemma.

[scragar]

System>preferences>Keyboard Shortcuts

take a look for Show the panel run application dialogue

[reeseslover531]

also if your keyboard is like a lot of keyboards make sure the f keys are enabled and not any other function that might be on the f keys.

[mrgnash]

Thanks guys It ended up being the F lock How embarrassing. Anyway, thanks again.

[ben2talk]

I don't have f-lock

However, I did decide to enable some 'layout options' in the keyboard - third level chooser to 'any alt'.

This kind of messes up your ALT+F2 option

[1-L]

The solution to the F-Lock problem on Microsoft keyboards is to add the following lines to the end of the file /etc/rc.local (You need to edit it as root):
setkeycodes bb 59 # Help -> F1
setkeycodes 88 60 # Undo -> F2
setkeycodes 87 61 # Redo -> F3
setkeycodes be 62 # New -> F4
setkeycodes bf 63 # Open -> F5
setkeycodes c0 64 # Close -> F6
setkeycodes c1 65 # Reply -> F7
setkeycodes c2 66 # Fwd -> F8
setkeycodes c3 67 # Send -> F9
setkeycodes a3 68 # Spell -> F10
setkeycodes d7 69 # Save -> F11
setkeycodes d8 70 # Print -> F12