On 12/19/2014 05:03 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 20/12/14 06:18, jd1008 wrote:
>
> On 12/19/2014 03:27 AM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>> On 19/12/14 13:56, jd1008 wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/18/2014 05:29 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>>>> On 19/12/14 11:55, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:34:54 +1300
>>>>> Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)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
>>>>
>>> Rolf, did you see my other replies?
>>
>> Well, yes. I've read all the postings in this thread. A lot of what
>> was said I did not understand.
>>
>>> You want to do this under the aegis of X server, right?
>>
>> I'm not sure, but I don't think so. I just want to disable the key.
>> I am running the Mate desktop under Fedora 17. The "X" (X11?) system
>> is "there" but not paramount, in my limited understanding.
>>
>>>
>>> Please tell me what key you wish to disable, and I will show
>>> you how to do it from within a gnome terminal.
>>
>> The key is the "F1" key (function 1) --- labelled most prominently
>> with a question mark: "?". It is next to the ESC key, which I use
>> frequently
>> (being a vi/vim user) and although not all *that* physically proximate,
>> it is close enough so that I often hit it when I reach for the ESC key.
>> (My clumsiness, I guess.) When it is pressed it pops up a Gnome help
>> menu, in which I have no interest.
>>
>>> Remember, that the modification might not affect the web browser.
>>> So, leave the web browser out of this.
>>
>> Gladly!
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Rolf Turner
>>
>> P. S. The machine in question is a Toshiba Satellite L850 laptop.
>>
>> R. T.
>>
> Rolf, I can disable it after I login and X is up and running and I use
> gnome-terminal .
> In gnome-terminal
> click edit-> Preferences -> Shortcuts
> Under shortcuts, scroll down to the line which shows:
>
> Contents F1
>
> doube-click on F1 and text will appear saying New Accelerator
> Now press the backspace key and it will be disabled.
> Click Close.
>
> Now F1 key will be inoperative.
>
> Some apps will not honour the disabled status of that key.
> Case in point: mate-terminal.
> But gnome-terminal does honour the disabled state of the key.
Thanks. That seems to do exactly what I want. Has the advantage of
being easily reversible; id est I could reactivate that key if ever I
wanted to do so (under some set of circumstances which I cannot imagine).
One comment --- this is probably reflective of my ancient version of
Fedora, but when I start a gnome terminal and click on "Edit" there is
no "Preferences" option on the menu. (There is a "Profile
preferences", but that's not what is needed.) There is a "Keyboard
shortcuts" option on the top level of the menu, and that *is* what is
needed.
Thanks again.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
Yes, the old version of Fedora's gnome-terminal has slightly different
menus.
Glad it helped.
Cheers,
JD