• Registered: 2009-01-19
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Topic: How to prevent the Ctrl-f opening xterm?

Hi there,

how can I delete the shortcut Strg-f which opens an xterm?
I want this shortcut to search in firefox.

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fladd

  • From: California, USA
  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: How to prevent the Ctrl-f opening xterm?

You can open the file ~/home/user/.config/openbox/rc.xml to modify shortcuts.

BTW Ctrl+F isnt a default shortcut. At least not I know.

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  • Registered: 2009-01-19
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Re: How to prevent the Ctrl-f opening xterm?

It is not in there, and I did not set it.

Strange

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  • Registered: 2008-11-30
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Re: How to prevent the Ctrl-f opening xterm?

I am using 01 Desktop and cntl-f opens up Thunar for me.
I have never heard it opening up xterm.

Are you sure that you are hitting cntl-f and opening up xterm?

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  • tjs
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  • From: Royal Oak, MI
  • Registered: 2010-07-29
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Re: How to prevent the Ctrl-f opening xterm?

Same issue here.  What is particularly strange is that CTRL-F works normally (i.e. invokes search in Ice Weasel) until gEdit is launched.  After gEdit has been launched (even if it does not have focus and after it is closed) CRTL-F opens Terminator globally.  There is no shortcut defined in my ~/home/user/.config/openbox/rc.xml for CRTL-F.

Any suggestions?

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  • Registered: 2010-03-26
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Re: How to prevent the Ctrl-f opening xterm?

I'm not saying this http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/79666/#p79666 is your answer but from what I've just read it's something no one has tried.

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Re: How to prevent the Ctrl-f opening xterm?

Good referral.  The post you directed me to reminded me that I had previously installed xbindkeys to setup bindings for hardware buttons on my laptop.  Apparently xbindkeys installs with a sample config that includes a mapping of ctrl+f to xterm.  Here's the post from the ubuntu forums where I found the detailed fix:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=195255

To summarize, run "sudo xbindkeys-config" from the command line.  There should be three default entries in the list, as well as any other ones you've set up. Delete the entry that maps to ctrl+f then save it.  Make sure you use the "save to default file" from the file menu or it will just revert on you.  Lots of people have reported that this fix didn't work (failed for me the first time too) and I suspect it is because they used the wrong save button in the UI... not sure why the UI has three save buttons.

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