On Mon, 21 May 2012 18:28:55 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > I recently noticed that when I hold the control key and press '4', it > generates ^\, i.e. SIGQUIT. This happens in both gnome-terminal and > xterm, and on two different kinds of physical keyboards. It doesn't > happen outside of X, on just a linux VT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGQUIT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_signal Ah, curious... > It's pretty annoying in mutt, because I often need to type shift-4 for > escape and typing control instead of shift kills the session. > > What kind of X keyboard mapping determines this behavior, and how can I > change it? Mmm... someone will confirm (or provide a better solution) but Google points to 'stty quit ""' to disable the key shortcut. > > (Please CC me since I'm not subscribed to this list.) Sorry, I can't :-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jpgiiq$isf$1...@dough.gmane.org
