Re: Shift+NumLock = beep forever

[Eric Sharkey <sharkey@netrics.com>]

> I've been having a really annoying problem with X: when I hit
> Shift+NumLock, it launches into an infinite beeping loop.

This has happened to me twice, but I was never quite sure what key
stroke combination had triggered it.

> This is the
> PC speaker beeping, so I can't turn it down or anything.  Only solution
> is to terminate the X server (logout, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, whatever).

Try "xset -b".  Not a real solution, but sometimes better than
shutting down X if you need to get work done.

Eric