Re: [e-users] enlightenment-users Digest, Vol 196, Issue 8

On Sat, 12 Nov 2022 14:47:44 -0500 Conrad Knight <[email protected]> said:

> On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 1:41 PM Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > the default is just print. not shift-print.perhaps this is your problem...
> > you THINK it's shift-print... ?
> 
> Hmm, Print was definitely not bound to anything before i looked at
> this yesterday, and shift-Print was. Maybe left over from a
> long-forgotten previous attempt at getting screenshots to work? I see

It's absolutely not the default. Check the e sources :) It'd have been your
efforts.

> there's a "reset to default" button.... Before i try that, do you
> foresee any problem with me backing up
> ~/.e/e/config/standard/e_bindings.cfg and restoring it afterward?

Other than e fighting you and writing out its in-memory copy of that
overwriting your replacement with backup... you essentially have to copy the
file on top and then force e to segfault immediately to hope to not have e
overwrite your config for some reason. :)

> (Sidenote: What's the difference between e_bindings.cfg.{1,2,etc.} and
> e_bindings.{1,2,etc.}.cfg? I seem to have both.)

backups. :) e keeps 9 backups of any config file. it will fall back to a backup
if the main file can't be decoded correctly. if that backup fails it goes to
the next one and so on. so e.cfg, e.cfg.1, e.cfg.2 etc. ... e.cfg.8, e.cfg.9

i changed the backup naming scheme at some point thus you'll have the old ones
that are not used anymore (e.1.cfg e.2.cfg etc.) and the newer scheme.

> > I'm wondering if you have something odd with your keyboard layout OR you're
> > running some other software that has stolen the print key?
> 
> But surely that other software would also steal it from xev and
> xbindkey? And when the key bindings settings screen prompts me to
> press a key to bind?

it would steal it from xev - yes. one thing i might imagine - it's some unknown
lock? but then all key bindings would suffer...

> The only other thing possibly affecting that key might be the SysRq
> function, alt-Print, which works even in the text console. I could try
> temporarily disabling sysrq, maybe?

i really don't know - i can't see why the print key would specially not work.
try binding shot to F12 or something? if you see Print being pressed in xev -
then e hasn't actually successfully  grabbed that key if you just press it.

> -Conrad.
> 
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