Re: How to disable certain keys
On 15/08/2015, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 14:26:23 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
>
>> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>>
>> > On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 15:41:07 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> >
>> >> Some of the keys are causing problems and disrupting what I do, due to
>> >> the keys apparently being inadvertently pressed.
>> >>
>> >> How do I disable the <Caps Lock> key, and, how do I disable the left
>> >> hand <CTRL> key, and, how do I disable the <Windows> keys?
>> >>
>> >> Thank you in anticipation.
>> >
>> > We hope spoon-feeding is not part of your anticipation. :)
>> >
>> > You've searched and searched. xmodmap might have come up. In what way
>> > were the solutions involving this utility or other techniques you came
>> > across unsatisfactory?
>>
>> That information is not obvious and using xmodmap is only one way to do
>> it. Most desktop environments have a keyboard section in their settings
>
> Which information isn't obvious? "How to disable certain keys" as the
> subject of this thread has it? Curt found and posted a solution within
> thirty minutes of the initial mail. If Curt can do it, so can anyone
> else. :)
>
>
We could have done without your belligerence, in this thread.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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published by Pan Books, 1992
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