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by chrismorgan 1255 days ago
And Ctrl+Alt+F[n] to virtual terminals.

I only mention this because it reminded me of one of my old laptops where Ctrl+Alt+F{1,3,5,7,9} worked, but Ctrl+Alt+F{2,4,6,8,0} didn’t, or the other way round, due to a bad keyboard matrix. That was inconvenient, because I was deliberately using three distinct X sessions at that time (personal, work, and I forget what the third was). For some reason that quite escapes me now, instead of just using every second virtual terminal, I instead added Ctrl+Alt+{1–9} mappings inside i3 to chvt {1–9}. I still occasionally have cause to pull out a second one, though mostly I use workspaces within the one session.