On Sunday 01 August 2021 13:14:00 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Hi Gene! > Hi Nik! > Anno domini 2021 Sun, 1 Aug 12:45:21 -0400 > > Gene Heskett scripsit: > > Greetings all; > > > > 1. I was forced by an errant mill table trapping and crushing my > > last logitech K360 keyboard with a different keyboard, one which has > > a row of buttons across the top/rear that among other things > > includes a power switch, and another that apparently makes it > > hibernate. It is virtually impossible to pick up this keyboard and > > take it the 3 or 4 feet to the machine without inadvertently > > pressing one or more of these buttons. > > > > None of them are of any use around potentially dangerous machinery. > > > > This is a row of buttons above the F buttons which the control > > program running the machine makes liberal use of. I need to > > completely disable that whole row of buttons, or find a source of > > logitech NOS K-360's. > > > > How can I do that? > > The easy way is to find the associated keycodes ans reassing them to > something harmless. Problem with that approach: you'll first need to > find the keycodes (which will most likely end using xev and then some > nasty words. Or you get some superglue (thick variant) + activator > spray and glue the key in place. Well, you could just open that > keyboard and place some glue or isolation tape on the contacts of > those 2 keys. Or drill a hole through the cap and pull the cap out. > > > Second, some debian ID10T has decreed that F10 is to bring up a > > useless to me menu, meaning the exit from mc now demands I find and > > pick up the $%#@&& mouse and use it to click on the F10 button at > > the bottom right of the mc screen. Where, in TDE do I find where > > that hijacking is being done so I can turn it off so I can run mc > > from the keyboard like I've been doing for 22 years? > > What console do you use? On the first machine above, TDE's konsole and of course the gui. On the 2nd, xfce-4.12, std lcnc based on debian 10 install. There I nuked the text for all the F10's I could find, but an F10 still brings up the xfce consoles "file" menu. Thanks Nik. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
