Ubuntu
console-setup package

  1. Bug #1508146
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1508146

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Adrian Fita (afita) wrote : Re: alt + left/right arrows switch between tty consoles, cannot disable

A workaround that I found on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/5620sf/alt_rightleft_arrow_keys_switching_to_virtual/d8g6ux5/

I created /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-dontvtswitch.conf with the following contents:

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-dontvtswitch.conf
Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "DontVTSwitch" "true"
EndSection

Now the Alt+Left/Right don't switch to the VT consoles.

But as a side effect it's not possible to switch to the VT consoles with the usual Ctrl+Alt+F1...F12 shortcuts either.

So this is not good enough...