Re: KDE2.2.2: Ctrl-S kills konsole input
On Monday 23 September 2002 12:50, Stuart Langridge wrote:
> David Pashley spoo'd forth:
> > On Monday 23 September 2002 3:49 am, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> >> Am Montag, 23. September 2002 03:40 schrieb Donald R. Spoon:
> >> > Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> >> > > sometimes I accidently hit Ctrl-S instead of Shift-S. This seems to
> >> > > disable the ability to do any keyboard input to that session. So
> >> > > what's wrong? How can I reenable input without closing the window
> >> > > and opening a new one?
> >> >
> >> > Try hitting Ctrl-Q and see what happens....
> >>
> >> Thanks, that really did it. Is there a way to disable this behaviour?
> >
> > This is dealt with by the same thing that deals with ctrl-C and ctrl-\.
> > AIUI that is the kernel. They are signals SIGSTOP and SIGCONT iirc. So
> > basically you don't have much chance of stopping it.
>
> Look at the stty command, in particular "stty start" and "stty stop",
> which define the stop and start keypresses. You can change what each of
> these are (so you can change the start character from ^S to something
> else), although I have no idea whether you can use a "Rollen" key.
This has been addressed in KDE 3.1 - you can enable or disable Ctrl+S/Ctrl+Q.
Regards,
Malcolm
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