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metacity package

  1. Bug #642792
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 642792

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote : Re: ALT+PrtSc not recognised

Whilst I agree that it's undesirable to have two parts of the system fight for the same keypress, it seems this is well known. From wikipedia:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

"Under graphical environments (such as Gnome or KDE) 'Alt'+'PrintScrn/SysRq'+key combination generally only leads to a screenshot to be dumped. To avoid this Print Screen feature the magic SysRq combination should be additionally prefixed by Ctrl, becoming 'Ctrl'+'Alt'+'SysRq'+key. "