Hi, I always wonderd what that key's use was. What is the purpose of the print screen and pause key in linux?On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Tyler Spivey wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello. I'm not sure if this is useful to anyone, but I wanted to throw > it out just in case. > The scroll lock, under Linux at least, can be used for its intended > purpose - to freeze the screen. If scroll lock is on, anything written > to your terminal will be suspended. When you turn it back off again, any > newly written text will start to be written. In a shell at least, you > can press control-s and control-q to get the same affect, most of the > time, unless another program has redefined them. Useful on remote > systems. > - - Tyler > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFGK3LATsjaYASMWKQRAvddAJ9Vni6bvm8apzea4UULyuzZWZsn5gCdFf91 > IT276yybP7MIfrH/OIwhU1w= > =qUIS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
