Print Screen keybindings stopped working

Mark Rosenstand mark at borkware.net
Wed Oct 19 05:29:57 PDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 01:34 +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> The default GNOME bindings for taking screenshots (PrtScr for fullscreen
> screenshot and Alt-PrtScr for single window) doesn't work with current
> xorg CVS. gnome-keybinding-properties detects the keys correctly - but
> nothing happens when I press them afterwards. xev also seems to get it.
> It works nicely in 6.8.2. Here's my config:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>         Driver          "kbd"
>         Option          "CoreKeyboard"
>         Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
>         Option          "XkbLayout"     "dk"
> EndSection
> 
> Any suggestions what might be wrong?

Just a little follow-up. It seems that when Alt-PrtScr is pressed,
Alt-Sys_Req is registered. If only PrtScr is pressed, then PrtScr is
registered, but it doesn't take a screenshot anyway. The same happens if
I bind the action to Alt-Sys_Req.




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