The/Space/key/does/not/work

[Matthew Flaschen]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:00:39PM -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Matthew Voss wrote:
>>> I/get/tons/of/text/./What/is/the/exact/sequense/should/I/press/the/keys/?
>> All you should do is press space, without moving the mouse.  You would
>> see some kind of KeyPress/KeyRelease regardless.
> 
> If the key was grabbed by some application (e.g. the one that manages
> GNOME global keybindings), xev won't see any events about it.  Which is
> exactly what happened.

I know xev can bypass KDE global shortcuts and still show the event.  I
would assume the same is true for GNOME.

Matt Flaschen