I’m running Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS, and whenever I hit CTRL-ALT-F12 my laptop freezes. This is a problem, because SHIFT-ALT-F12 is the “close all subwindows” shortcut for Android Studio, and I’m constantly getting the two of them confused.
What’s going on, and how to I prevent this in the future?
I believe CTRL+ALT+F12 should try to send you to a tty session. So I am not sure it is something you can easily change.
When you accidentally hit Ctr+Alt+F12, you should be able to get back with Ctr+Alt+F7.
I read some say those Ctr+Alt+F* hotkeys are hardcoded into the kernel, and you can’t change them. Yet, I’ve read a couple methods that claim to work for changing them. But I would advise you not mess with that. It might break things. And those hotkeys serve as a sort of last resort at times. If your desktop becomes frozen, you switch to tty & restart your desktop, or if nothing else you can safely shutdown from command line there.
Instead, just change Android Studio’s shortcut.
Not sure if these work, I won’t try them.
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS should be using Xorg, unless you switched to wayland. I see some instructions for both.
Again, I’d warn not to follow these instructions.
Changing the TTY switch shortcut - #4 by dmt - Support - Manjaro Linux Forum