Re: What program is capturing key press on root window of X?
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Harry Putnam wrote:
[ . . . ]
> Somewhere in the last few months my Debian OS has acquired an input
> box on upper right of base window (in X) that appears to grab any key
> presses aimed at the base window and print them in that small input
> window.
[ . . . ]
> I wasn't able to tell which program it is by examining the autostart
> programs ... can anyone tell me what that is that is running so I can
> turn it off?
Look in the Settings for your windowing environment for keyboard
shortcuts. Sometimes they are under a 'Keyboard' entry, sometimes
under 'Window Manager', etc. I generally have to unbind some default
settings in those config screens so I can rebind those key combos under
xbindkeys.
HTH,
-- Brad
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