[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hijacking of Shift-F5

[Jean-Pierre André]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.

That was it !

Just killing the dispswitch process makes the key usable.

>
> 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.

Not tried yet, but I am on the right track now.

Thanks !

Jean-Pierre