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I'm using Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 and recently I noticed that by pressing Alt+Left changes from the GUI to the tty.

I use that shortcut regularly and this behavior interferes with my workflow.

How can I disable it?

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Reset to default
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Only workaround I can find is to run sudo kbd_mode -s, which fixes it in the current session for me.

I'm not sure how to use that to fix it permanently, or what the root cause is.

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    It seems like the behavior doesn't always happen. When it shows up I'll give it a try. For now I'll accept your answer! Thank you!
    – Ricardo Rodrigues
    Feb 22, 2017 at 16:09
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    It happened again and your solution worked. I'm lucky that it only sometimes happens to me.
    – Ricardo Rodrigues
    Mar 6, 2017 at 10:58
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I got here because my alt+left was not working as a custom shortcut on phpstorm on ubuntu, but I realized that my problem was when I modified the default alt behavior to key to chose the 3rd level (to use accents with left alt).

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