How to disable CTRL ALT F1

[Tsu Dho Nimh]

I want to prevent the terminal from opening with CRTL ALT F1 because it interferes with some (brane-ded) software that uses the same keys to enable and disable the software GUI.

It would normally be done by commenting out a line in inittab

I have no inittab ... what do I have to do to the files in /etc/event.d to prevent a terminal from opening when I press CTRL ALT F1

Step by step please.

[Tsu Dho Nimh]

Uh ... no answers?

[cumulus007]

Hi,

This may be strange, answering to a very old topic, but you have to add this to the xorg.conf file:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontVTSwitch" "true"
EndSection

[nagios]

That's exactly what it was, the:

Option "DontVTSwitch" "true"

in the xorg.conf disabled this option. Thanks!

[mwalimu54]

just what I was looking for. I might note that in Karmic the xorg.conf file doesn't exist (if you haven't created it yet) so you'll have to create a blank file in the proper directory and and the previously mentioned lines.

[supreme commander]

I have found the file xorg.conf but it is read only. what do I do

[vxp2006]

hey

The xorg.conf is not for regular user to edit and save.

1. Copy that file to your home directory ( cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /home/user1/.... )
2. edit and save in your user directory
3. copy it back to the /etc/x11 directory ( sudo cp /home/user/xorg.conf /etc/x11 )

done.

btw, thanks to the previous post about how to disable ctrl-alt-f1. I've been looking for it for weeks.