On 12/18/2014 02:34 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 19/12/14 08:27, jd1008 wrote:
>
> On 12/18/2014 12:12 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:31:49 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> [....]
>>> I'm sure I would still hit it occasionally. The problem is that I
>>> often
>>> don't notice until I've overwritten a bunch of characters, so I
prefer
>>> to put it beyond use.
>>>
>>>
>>>
> To the original OP:
> This is what I do in order to disable a key:
> sudo /bin/loadkeys << 'EOF'
> keycode TheKeyCodeInQuestion = NoSymbol
> EOF
>
> 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 .)
Thanks for any advice.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
Did you use
sudo ???
Try first to su to root and then
/bin/loadkeys << 'EOF'
keycode TheKeyCodeInQuestion = NoSymbol
EOF