[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hijacking of Shift-F5

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 05/18/17 12:37 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Jean-Pierre André <jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr> writes:
>> I have a similar problem with Shift-F5 which is hijacked
>> by some code I cannot locate. Apparently this does not
>> reach Xorg (xev does not see the KeyPress event), so I
>> cannot redefine it.
>>
>> I thought it was hijacked by the nvidia driver, as I got
>> the normal behavior on a computer with Intel graphics, but
>> this was with vesa emulation. The Intel graphics driver
>> can now be used, and the hijacking now also shows up on
>> this computer.
>>
>> So this must be an OI/illumos thing (or at least something
>> common to nvidia and intel drivers but not the vesa one).
>> How can I locate and un-hijack it ?
>>
>> Note : Shift-F5 causes a screen blink. Is it taken for
>> a screen copy or a screen print ?

Oops - I missed the original message, but saw it quoted here - check to
see if you have a process called "dispswitch" running - it grabs
Shift-F5 to try to do display probe/switch for when you plug in an external
monitor to your laptop.

It was an OpenSolaris custom creation which I assume OI inherited, and
isn't used on other OS'es that I know of.

It's started by /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-dispswitch.desktop as part of
desktop session startup.  The man page lists the args to change which
key it steals.

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