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Is there an application to know which key is bound by which process and therefore not usable in another application?
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Is there a way to know which processes are listening to a given key binding? For example, suppose I want to know which programs will do something when I press Ctrl+g. I guess the X server manages ...
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I have meka g-unit keyboard. This keyboard has 12 additional keys. I found scancodes of this keys via evtest and mapped these codes to f13-24 key codes. Everything works fine, but some keys(F20,21,22,...
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Sometimes Firefox doesn't release the mouse after dragging, so I need to kill the application to force it to release its pointer grab. Is there any command to force an application to ungrab the ...
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I'm running XFCE 4.12 on top of Gentoo with a 4.2.0 kernel. My PlayPause button on my keyboard used to work as a global hotkey for VLC. Now VLC won't even recognize the key. It does see "Alt + Media ...
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I have an application that seems to have grabbed the mouse (I can move it but can't click anywhere), is there a way to find which app owns the X.org mouse grab? The shortcut given here to release the ...
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Suppose I have an X application, which grabs keyboard and mouse as its normal mode of operation (e.g. QEMU), but which, due to a bug somewhere, hangs really hard (e.g. gets stuck in Disk sleep). ...
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In some applications entering capital letters works like hitting ESC key. Reproducing: Open LibreOffice document Select "Save as" (Unity dialog) Hit "Create folder" Enter a capital letter using shift ...
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I am using Ubuntu. While working, I got a weird kind of a freeze. My mouse is moving but it is stuck on the I symbol and it clicks nothing. I also have an open menu that opens when you float over or ...
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Having just upgraded to Linux Mint 18.1 KDE (Plasma 5.8.5, Qt 5.6.1) all is working excellent apart from strange problem I never come across before. Something is grabbing my "Ctrl+s" sequence on what ...
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Suddenly the key "p" stoPPed working at certain Places. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 - Gnome 3.18. I found that someone had the same issue here, but there is no solution Posted. "p" works in Activities ...
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How can I list the X clients which registered for a specific keyboard event (i.e. a key press; a shortcut thing). Those things are called passive key(board) grabs. And the list should contain what ...
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I have a dual screen setup which I've configured by running this command at startup: xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto --right-of DVI-0 I'm running OpenSuse 11.4 with dwm as my window manager. I can post ...
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I've been using the Microsoft Sculpt keyboard for about a week with almost no issue. The one problem I'm seeing is that the Ctrl+F keyboard combo doesn't seem to work anywhere in my OS, other ...
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Some application on my system (Ubuntu Linux 13.0) is hijacking a specific keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Space). I don't know which one it is and would like to identify it. How can I do this?
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