[gentoo-user] In X: <up> wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?

[gentoo-user] In X: <up> wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Gentoo!

Just this past hour, I've noticed that in Gnome 2, any depression of
<up> wants to create a .png image of my current desktop.  This is
regardless of which application is currently active.  This is
particularly irritating in Firefox, where I want <up> to scroll the
screen.

I suspect this might have been caused by a recent update to the ?event
library (I can't remember exactly what this was).

I hate it when people do "clever" things like this.  How can I make it
stop?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] In X: <up> wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> Hi, Gentoo!
>
> Just this past hour, I've noticed that in Gnome 2, any depression of
> <up> wants to create a .png image of my current desktop.  This is
> regardless of which application is currently active.  This is
> particularly irritating in Firefox, where I want <up> to scroll the
> screen.
>
> I suspect this might have been caused by a recent update to the ?event
> library (I can't remember exactly what this was).
>
> I hate it when people do "clever" things like this.  How can I make it
> stop?

I would downgrade to previous version of the evdev driver and see if
it helps. Or disable/change the shortcut for print screen as a
temporary workaround.

Re: [gentoo-user] In X: <up> wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Paul.

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:30:50PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> > Hi, Gentoo!

> > Just this past hour, I've noticed that in Gnome 2, any depression of
> > <up> wants to create a .png image of my current desktop.  This is
> > regardless of which application is currently active.  This is
> > particularly irritating in Firefox, where I want <up> to scroll the
> > screen.

> > I suspect this might have been caused by a recent update to the ?event
> > library (I can't remember exactly what this was).

> > I hate it when people do "clever" things like this.  How can I make it
> > stop?

> I would downgrade to previous version of the evdev driver and see if
> it helps.

I do
    emerge =dev-libs/libevent-2.0.16
and restart X windows.  Everything now works properly.  (The recently
emerged libevent was 2.0.18.)

> Or disable/change the shortcut for print screen as a
> temporary workaround.

I tried this (in Gnome 2) with System/Preferences/Keyboard
Shortcuts/Desktop/Take a screenshot.  It was set to <Print> and I left
it there.

Similarly, "Take a screenshot of a window" was set to <Alt+Print>.
Typing <Alt+up> triggered this.

I think there's something wrong with libevent-2.0.18.  Does anybody get
problems in KDE or XFCE?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] In X: <up> wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thu, 17 May 2012 17:24:57 +0000
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> Hello, Paul.
> 
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:30:50PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> > > Hi, Gentoo!
> 
> > > Just this past hour, I've noticed that in Gnome 2, any depression
> > > of <up> wants to create a .png image of my current desktop.  This
> > > is regardless of which application is currently active.  This is
> > > particularly irritating in Firefox, where I want <up> to scroll
> > > the screen.
> 
> > > I suspect this might have been caused by a recent update to
> > > the ?event library (I can't remember exactly what this was).
> 
> > > I hate it when people do "clever" things like this.  How can I
> > > make it stop?
> 
> > I would downgrade to previous version of the evdev driver and see if
> > it helps.
> 
> I do
>     emerge =dev-libs/libevent-2.0.16
> and restart X windows.  Everything now works properly.  (The recently
> emerged libevent was 2.0.18.)
> 
> > Or disable/change the shortcut for print screen as a
> > temporary workaround.
> 
> I tried this (in Gnome 2) with System/Preferences/Keyboard
> Shortcuts/Desktop/Take a screenshot.  It was set to <Print> and I left
> it there.
> 
> Similarly, "Take a screenshot of a window" was set to <Alt+Print>.
> Typing <Alt+up> triggered this.
> 
> I think there's something wrong with libevent-2.0.18.  Does anybody
> get problems in KDE or XFCE?
> 

No problems with KDE-4.8.3 and libevent-2.0.19 here

libevent-2.0.19 was merged here 5 May and libevent-2.0.18 on 26 Mar. In
all that time I never noticed anything strange with screenshots. So it
must be a gnome-specific bug



-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] In X: <up> wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 17 May 2012 18:44:51 Alan McKinnon wrote:

> No problems with KDE-4.8.3 and libevent-2.0.19 here

Nor here with KDE 4.8.1 and libevent 2.0.18.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

[gentoo-user] Re: In X: <up> wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?

[walt]

On 05/16/2012 03:00 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Gentoo!
> 
> Just this past hour, I've noticed that in Gnome 2, any depression of
> <up> wants to create a .png image of my current desktop.  This is
> regardless of which application is currently active.  This is
> particularly irritating in Firefox, where I want <up> to scroll the
> screen.
> 
> I suspect this might have been caused by a recent update to the ?event
> library (I can't remember exactly what this was).
> 
> I hate it when people do "clever" things like this.  How can I make it
> stop?

You did me a huge favor by asking that question, thanks!  While poking
around in the keyboard settings applet I discovered a well-hidden option
to disable the Caps-Lock key.  I hit that stupid thing by accident at
least ten times/hour and say very vulgar things when it happens ;)

The keyboard-shortcuts applet does have an option to change the screenshot
hotkey, so maybe something changed it behind your back?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In X: <up> wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

On 05/16/2012 07:08 PM, walt wrote:
> You did me a huge favor by asking that question, thanks! While poking 
> around in the keyboard settings applet I discovered a well-hidden 
> option to disable the Caps-Lock key. I hit that stupid thing by 
> accident at least ten times/hour and say very vulgar things when it 
> happens ;) The keyboard-shortcuts applet does have an option to change 
> the screenshot hotkey, so maybe something changed it behind your back? 
Could you amplify a little bit and reveal exactly what applet you used 
and where the little option is located?

Thanks,
-- 
G.Wolfe Woodbury
aka redwolfe

[gentoo-user] Re: In X: <up> wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?

[walt]

On 05/16/2012 05:22 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> On 05/16/2012 07:08 PM, walt wrote:
>> You did me a huge favor by asking that question, thanks! While
>> poking around in the keyboard settings applet I discovered a
>> well-hidden option to disable the Caps-Lock key. I hit that stupid
>> thing by accident at least ten times/hour and say very vulgar
>> things when it happens ;) The keyboard-shortcuts applet does have
>> an option to change the screenshot hotkey, so maybe something
>> changed it behind your back?

> Could you amplify a little bit and reveal exactly what applet you
> used and where the little option is located?

Heh.  I told you it's well-hidden :)

This applies only to gnome2.  I've been looking for a similar
trick in gnome3 but it's even more hidden there and I'm still
hunting/hoping for it.

The System::Preferences menu has a "Keyboard" applet and also
a "Keyboard Shortcuts" applet.  The screenshot setting is in
"Keyboard Shortcuts" and the CapsLock settings are in
Keyboard::Layouts::Options...