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@×××.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@×××.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



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Alan McKinnnon
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