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pfrenssen

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Registered: 2012-04-09

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[SOLVED] Pressing PrintScreen generates hardcopy of terminal contents

I recently got a new keyboard which causes me to sometimes accidentally hit the PrintScreen button when I intend to hit backspace. To my great dismay this prints out the entire terminal contents on paper. In these last couple of days my entire floor got covered by printed out terminal contents and I had to resort to taking physical action (i.e. unplugging the printer).

How can I figure out which package is responsible for this? I've been looking through https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ex … board_keys but it seems to be fully focused on providing new key bindings, it doesn't seem to mention how I can discover which actions are already bound to certain keys.

My terminal emulator is rxvt-unicode and I use cups for printing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated both by me and the environment.

Last edited by pfrenssen (2018-07-24 13:05:51)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing PrintScreen generates hardcopy of terminal contents

Which desktop environment are you using?

pfrenssen

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Registered: 2012-04-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing PrintScreen generates hardcopy of terminal contents

I'm using AwesomeWM.

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing PrintScreen generates hardcopy of terminal contents

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Rxvt-unicode#Printing

pfrenssen

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Registered: 2012-04-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing PrintScreen generates hardcopy of terminal contents

Thanks @Raynman, that solves it! I've also added this section to our wiki page now, this might help some people: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rx … e#Printing