On 19/12/14 11:55, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:34:54 +1300
Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
On 19/12/14 08:27, jd1008 wrote:
If you do not know the KeyCode, run the program:
showkey
and press the key in question
and it's code will be displayed.
You must wait 10 seconds of idle
and showkey program will exit;
then run the sudo script above.
This looks very useful to me .... but as usual I fall at the first
hurdle. When I type showkey or "showkey -k" I get:
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
And that's it. Anything I can do about this? (Please note: I am
running Fedora 17 --- yes, I know --- and using a Mate desktop; Mate
1.6.1 .)
You need to run showkey in a proper virtual terminal, aka ctrl-alt-f3
or such. It was not designed to work under X.
HTH, :-)
Did not help, I'm afraid. I did ctrl-alt-f3 and *absolutely nothing*
happened.
I (repeatedly) tried using "xev" as was proposed by someone else, to
discern the keycode for the key I wished to disable. The output was
prolific and profuse and incomprehensible. However after trying *one
more time* and scrolling back through the plethora of output I managed
to guess that the keycode I needed was "67".
So I did:
xmodmap -e "keycode 67 = NoSymbol"
That was accepted without throwing an error, and blow-me-down, the key
in question seemed to be disabled. Success? No, not quite.
I then restarted the system to see if the effect would persist. It didn't!
It would appear that I have to issue the "xmodmap" command every time
that I reboot. Not a *big* deal, but annoying. Is there a way to make
the effect persist?
I tried put the line
keycode 67 = NoSymbol
into the file /etc/X11/Xmodmap, but that seemed to have no effect.
Any other ideas? Ta.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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