Re: [tlug] Keypresses stop appearing in terminal window

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi Darren,


On 28/01/11 18:36, Darren Cook wrote:
> > ... one guess is that you're
> > hitting CTRL+S.  Hit CTRL+Q to get it back. ...
> Apparently you cannot stop this behaviour, but what you can do [1] is
> stop the application receiving the ctrl-q keypress by assigning it
> globally. You do that with System|Preferences|Keyboard Shortcuts. I
> assigned it to "Launch Calculator" as that would not disturb anything.
>
> Then (and this is the funny bit) one day in a terminal I hit ctrl-s to
> freeze some log output streaming past. When I hit ctrl-q to start it
> again the calculator popped up instead.


Hmmmmm, I have to admit that I don't have a story that even 
compares to this.  However, one annoying thing is "htop" 
which (IMHO) is better than "top".  However, the hotkeys 
listed along the bottom are all Function keys -- i.e., F1 
for Help.  If you're running it from a dumb terminal, you're 
ok; but if you're running it within GDM then hitting F1 will 
bring up the Gnome help.  Awfully silly of them to not show 
the non-function help keys along the bottom...

BTW, it seems there is a way to get around your problem by 
remapping keys just for Firefox and not globally.  I came 
across this extension to remap hotkeys:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=72994

however, I am not entirely sure if it's an official 
extension as I cannot seem to find it on the Firefox 
pages...so use with caution.

Ray