Hi Gene!
Anno domini 2021 Sun, 1 Aug 12:45:21 -0400 Gene Heskett scripsit:
Greetings all;
- 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?
Nik
Thanks all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett