[[!meta title="Tell Xorg to re-grab the keyboard"]] [[!meta date="2011-12-29 23:45"]] [[!meta author="rohieb"]] [[!meta license="CC-BY-SA 3.0"]] OK, I was doing some debugging with Xorg, and thought I had to use the [Magic SysRq][0] key to kill it. But when I had pressed Alt-SysRq-R to give the keyboard control from Xorg back to the kernel, it turned out that I not longer needed to do another SysRq because my Xorg magically worked again… ;-) Unfortunately now, everytime I pressed Alt-F4 to close a window, I found myself on tty4… rather poor. So I needed some way to tell Xorg to grab the keyboard again, and [there it is][1]: Just open an xterm and execute sudo kbd_mode -s [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key [1]: https://learninginlinux.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/debugging-notes-to-self/ [[!tag fix howto debugging Linux shell SysRq Xorg]]