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metacity package

  1. Bug #642792
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 642792

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 642792] Re: ALT+PrtSc not recognised: breaks built-in screenshot function

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:49:23PM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Oli [2010-10-04 11:42 -0000]:
> > While I can see the technical argument for making alt trigger the
> > alternate key, the solution in the latest kernel is at least 10 years
> > too late.

> I don't believe that Maverick's kernel changed anything in that
> regard; the SysRq key functionaly has been pretty much the same since
> Linux' inception. It's more likely that something changed in X.org or
> the desktop environments.

Right. I've been using Alt+PrtSc for SysRq for 15 years, and the one and
only time I experienced this key combination generating screenshots (at the
time of the Dallas UDS), it was a bug that resulted in much swearing from
everyone experiencing it.

> > It's also well known that if you want sysrq, you use
> control+alt+prscr.

> Where is that documented? It's at least news to me.

And to me.

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