Alt + F4 takes me to console terminal 4

[cuchumino]

Hello all!

 

I recently reinstalled funtoo. I am using Gnome, and currently an important short cut key, the "windows" key on a regular keyboard, has stopped functioning correctly.

 

I don't know what happens but when I hit that key, it takes me to terminal mode (not sure if this is what it is called.). I used to only be able to come to this mode if I hit ctrl+alt+F3 , or F1, or F2....

 

also, now if I want to close a window in Gnome, I might hit F4 on full screen applications or games. It takes me to the same console mode, and I have to ctrl+alt+F7 back in.

 

Anyone know how to undo this annoying behavior?

[overkill]

Check your keyboard settings in the gnome control panel.  There are shortcuts there that can be added/changed/removed.  Maybe you have the wrong keyboard input source?  That can be changed there as well.

[cuchumino]

Thanks Overkill.

 

I hadn't restarted my system in a couple of days, last night, I shut everything down. Once it restarted, regular behavior resumed.

 

Weird though.