On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 05:32:10PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > 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 :-(
Huh? Well anyway, so that your post is not a waste of time. :) Yes, stty quit "" works!! -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- 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/20120522194214.GF1583@tal
