Re: WTF is binding "Control-O" key in Gnome apps?

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

"Mumia W.." <paduille.4058.mumia.w@earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 09/21/2006 08:13 PM, Miles Bader wrote:
> > Starting sometime in the past year or so, Gnome apps on my machine have
> > begun to treat Control-O (that's "oh", not zero) as meaning "toggle
> > input method", i.e., the same thing that Shift-Space normally does.
> > 
> > In some apps it doesn't matter, but somtimes this binding is insanely
> > annoying, especially in gnome-terminal -- it prevents apps running in
> > the terminal from using Control-O!!!
> > 
> > Can someone tell me where this binding is getting made, and how I can
> > disable it (and then send a bug report that it's a Stupid Binding Which
> > Unnecessarily Interferes With Normal Usage)?
> > 
> > [I don't know that it's Gnome doing the binding, but it seems to only hbe
> > in Gnome apps, so ...]
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > -Miles
> > 
> 
> You can remap keys using xmodmap if you have to, but it might be your 
> keyboard layout that needs fixing. When I type "grep XkbLayout 
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4" it says "us." Since you are using Xorg, your 
> configuration file is probably differently named.

I remapped the F10 signal to the F12 key, but IceWM is still reacting
on the old F10. It seems to be more complicated then that.

Regards,
Andrei
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