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Is there a way that I can stop the Ctrl+Alt+F4 key combination from switching to a virtual terminal? I still want the other key combinations to switch to terminals - I just want to change the F4 one because I often use that keyboard shortcut in a Windows VM.

Isaiah
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Mario
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You can modify the keymap, with the following command:

xmodmap -pke | sed -n 's/ = .*VT_4.*/ = /p' | xmodmap -

Tested on 14.04, and 14.10, and it works. To have the command work even after restart, use upstart. For additional ways, and info see here

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enzotib
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On Gnome Wayland you can unset this keybinding for virtual terminal switching by setting this dconf property:

dconf write /org/gnome/mutter/wayland/keybindings/switch-to-session-4 "['']"
Eduard Wirch
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