Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Stuck shift key on one virtual console (2.0.36) | Date | Wed, 17 Mar 1999 19:07:27 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <199903171131.MAA07665@wsdw01.win.tue.nl>, Guest section DW writes: +----- | From schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Wed Mar 17 11:15:03 1999 | | dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW) writes: | | |> But reboot -- what a bad habit, when you have source.. | |> Next time, try, e.g., "kbd_mode -a". | | Pretty hard to type if shift is stuck... | | essentially by first starting X. And lo! X is also easy to type | with a stuck shift key. | And there are so many other ways out - paste using selection | or gpm for example, or just logging in via net or serial line, ...) +--->8
$ cat >/usr/local/bin/^A #! /bin/sh kbd_mode -a ^D $ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/^A
Now type ^A^J to recover. :-)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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