Bug 89942 - Alt+arrow key deactivates current session
Summary: Alt+arrow key deactivates current session
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: systemd
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium minor
Assignee: systemd-bugs
QA Contact: systemd-bugs
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Reported: 2015-04-07 18:01 UTC by Alex Wauck
Modified: 2015-04-14 15:00 UTC (History)
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2015-04-07 18:01 UTC, Alex Wauck
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Description Alex Wauck 2015-04-07 18:01:52 UTC
Created attachment 114933 [details]
loginctl info

I'm running KDE Plasma 5 on Arch Linux, and I have discovered that if I press Alt+Left or Alt+Right or Alt plus a function key (as if I were in a console VT session and attempting to switch to a different VT), logind thinks my session has become inactive.  However, pressing Ctrl+Alt+Left does not have this effect.  I have attached some relevant information from loginctl.
Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2015-04-14 13:10:18 UTC
So you are saying that on Alt-Left the KDE session stays in the foreground but logind thinks you switched away from it?

logind doesn' handle Alt-Left, that's up to the DE. And Ctrl-Alt-Left is an X11 thing to handle.

What is KDE doing on Alt-Left?
Comment 2 Alex Wauck 2015-04-14 14:51:33 UTC
Yes, the problem was that the KDE session stayed in the foreground but logind though I switched away from it.  I couldn't find any action assigned to Alt+Left in KDE's shortcut key configuration, so I assumed logind was somehow receiving it directly (which is of course ridiculous).  However, I cannot reproduce it anymore.  I recently had an NVIDIA driver update; maybe that driver was doing something stupid.
Comment 3 Lennart Poettering 2015-04-14 15:00:43 UTC
OK, will close then. Feel free to reopen if this returns and turns out to be a logind issue.


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