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by jphartmann
Sun Jan 01, 2017 1:42 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Howto find the window manager being used and disable keyboard shortcuts
Replies: 5
Views: 4346

Re: Howto find the window manager being used and disable keyboard shortcuts

Forgot: The editor I use is KEDIT for Windows, which runs under wine. If I need a UNIX editor, vi fits the bill.
by jphartmann
Sun Jan 01, 2017 12:56 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Howto find the window manager being used and disable keyboard shortcuts
Replies: 5
Views: 4346

Re: Howto find the window manager being used and disable keyboard shortcuts

I solved the problems by uninstalling the offending programs. As far as I can tell, they get started somehow (undoubtedly by a list of commands to initialise I came past on one of my travels); and then hog the key. As I am very much a command prompt man, the annoyance is limited to finding out what ...
by jphartmann
Sun Dec 25, 2016 6:17 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Howto find the window manager being used and disable keyboard shortcuts
Replies: 5
Views: 4346

Re: Howto find the window manager being used and disable keyboard shortcuts

It was ClipIt that installed those shortcuts. Rather naughty.
by jphartmann
Sun Dec 25, 2016 1:55 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Howto find the window manager being used and disable keyboard shortcuts
Replies: 5
Views: 4346

Howto find the window manager being used and disable keyboard shortcuts

I installed LXDE on top of UBUNTU 16.04 LTS because compiz simply makes a hash of multiple screens and workspaces. LXDE is great, but, like all other distributions, the window manager has a bunch of keyboard shortcuts that get in the way of my favourite editor, e.g., I have control-alt-f mapped in t...