What is hijacking Konsole?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 06:17, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> wrote:
>> Wow, you're right! Who is the genius who thought to hijack Ctrl-F,
>> which is "Find" in almost every application!?!
>
> So I was correct with the global-grab and non-kde theories! =:^)
>
> But I was somewhat thrown off by the assumption that someone would have
> tested that keystroke in other apps, before posting a question about it
> that blamed the problem on konsole.

Testing in other apps would have been the obvious next step.I have no
excuse for not even doing that.


> Still, while specific window global-
> level-grabs (perhaps specific-window X-level is a better description
> here, since the grabs aren't really global, tho the would be if not
> limited to a specific window) are indeed possible, since they're less
> common, I was forced to assume that either that testing had NOT taken
> place, or a rather less common grab mode was being used, and my proposed
> tests reflected the fact that I wasn't sure of that assumption.  So it
> threw me off only slightly, and the test results would have confirmed the
> fallacy of that assumption, bringing us right back on course toward a
> trace-down.
>
> As for "hijacking" Ctrl-f, while modern x86 keyboards generally have a
> meta/super/hyper/windows/linux key that due to its relatively recent
> invention, doesn't show up on so many app-level key-bindings, so it's a
> relatively safe key to use for global bindings, apps that don't assume it
> exists (or is configured correctly), as xbindkeys apparently doesn't,
> don't have the luxury of using that key for global bindings and thus
> avoiding the standard, often already bound, control/alt/shift modifier
> combos.
>
> As a result there's bound to be conflicts when such bindings are global-
> grabbed, and the author was forced to either ship with few if any global-
> grabs active by default, or to assume that a user advanced enough to go
> looking for and installing a global-grab hotkey app, would also be
> advanced enough to look over the default grabs and deactivate or modify
> the ones that didn't suit his purposes.
>
> It seems both his assumption, that anyone advanced enough to go looking
> for and install such an app would immediately check the config and modify
> it to their own purposes, and mine, that anyone trying to trace strange
> key behavior would test it in more than one app before posting, blaming
> it on a single app, were both incorrect.
>
> Oh, well...
>
> At least the problem was traced and corrected, tho.  That's the important
> bit! =:^)
>

I'm not actually interested in placing blame, but rather finding the
cause. Which has been found!

Thanks, Zorael and Duncan!


-- 
Dotan Cohen

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