I have installed blender 2.23 on linux (debian-testing, kernel 2.4.18 ).
In tutorials the keypad is used to switch the view. This does not work.
I wanted to peek into python applications with aid of a tutorial: Open texteditor with shift-F11 - does not work, I open the text-window and enter the suggested code. execute script with alt-P - does not work. Do I have to activate python explicitely and are these shortcuts then available?
Seems as if your windowmanager/desktop-environment handles the shortcuts. The best way is to undefine them, as far as they are not important for you.
Are there any error-messages in the terminal-window from where you started blender? (don’t start blender by icon-clicking, if you wanna develope scripts!)