problem with keyboard, up arrow calls on "Print Screen Key" and screenshot appears

José Matos jamatos at fc.up.pt
Sun Mar 9 10:40:52 UTC 2008


On Sunday 09 March 2008 01:54:39 Adam Jackson wrote:
> The bug appears to be that gnome-settings-daemon is grabbing the keycode
> for what happens to be "Print Screen" at some point during startup.
> Then the map changes, and that keycode ends up mapping to Up.  But g-s-d
> doesn't update the grabs when this happens.
>
> This is actually a fairly intricate problem to solve, because there's no
> direct communication path between g-s-d and the plugins that actually
> hold the grab for sending this notification along.  That said, I think I
> have a strategy for fixing it.  Hopefully I'll have it written by
> tomorrow.

  Surely the problem is not restrict to gnome. I use KDE and the problem is 
there as well. I have tried xfce and it has the same problem. :-)

> - ajax

-- 
José Abílio




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