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?
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?
Thanks all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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
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;
- 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
Gene Heskett composed on 2021-08-01 12:45 (UTC-0400):
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?
If you run MC from a Konsole menu/tab that stupid hijack won't happen.
On Sunday 01 August 2021 09:45:21 Gene Heskett wrote:
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?
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?
Thanks all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Another possible workaround is just to find another keyboard that doesn't have those keys. Keyboards can be found cheap or even free. Lots of people just toss them, or you can find them at second-hand shops for a couple bucks tops.
If you only use the keyboard for this one thing, then probably you don't need all the extra bells and whistles, but just a basic keyboard.
Bill
-
Dr. Nikolaus Klepp -
Felix Miata -
Gene Heskett -
William Morder