On 15/08/2015, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2015-08-14, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Some of the keys are causing problems and disrupting what I do, due to >> the keys apparently being inadvertently pressed. >> >> How do I disable the <Caps Lock> key, and, how do I disable the left >> hand <CTRL> key, and, how do I disable the <Windows> keys? > > I'm reading you can use xev to obtain the keycode value of the key you want > to > disable, then you can run xmodmap to disable the key (by setting it to the > empty string, I guess) > > xmodmap -e 'keycode <value>=' > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmodmap > >> Thank you in anticipation. >> > > > >
Okay, trying again with my response that I had sent. I have found that the web browser used when I (had tried to have ) sent my previous response, apparently has a tendency to delete all message content, when sending a message via gmail, so that web browser is apparently completely useless when forms are involved. Thank you for your asssistance. >From the URL that you posted, I found the simple solution that I applied, which worked. The package that I found from that URL, and that I installed, is xkeycaps. xkeycaps is run from the command line, and (when ran from a command line in a terminal emulator) it displayed a graphical image of the keyboard, and, when a mouseover was done of the keys that I wanted to disable, a menu is displayed, with an option to disable the key. Whilst I do not know whether that setting will be retained, when the system is next rebooted, it is easy enough to repeat the action, upon rebooting the system. So, the simple solution that I found (thanks to your response above) and applied, is the package xkeycaps. Thank you again for your assitance. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................
