Unknown use of F9 key

[Karl Larsen]

Ulin the Tech Mage wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 12:08 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Kim Goldenberg wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm not sure what has attached itself to the F9 key, but whenever I 
>>> press it the whole desktop goes dim, and only comes back if I press 
>>> another F-key or click with the mouse. As I have several applications 
>>> that use the F9 key, this has become an annoyance. I suspect that it 
>>> was something that was either installed, then removed or something 
>>> updated. I also suspect it was set as a key and the action program no 
>>> longer exists, but the software to call it still traps the key press. 
>>> Fortunately for some things Shift-F9 works for many of them, but it is 
>>> hard to retrain my fingers, and I would like to fix this.
>>>
>>> I am looking for suggestions on how to debug this, more than actual 
>>> fixes, but will take anything people can suggest.
>>>
>>> Running Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64, up to date Intel core-duo processor, 2GB 
>>> memory.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> Kim
>>>       
>>     Well Kim my Hardy I discover F9 causes my Thunderbird to check for 
>> new email :-)
>> This is not something I use because I don't use F9 at all. But odd 
>> things I agree.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
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>> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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>>     
> its a compiz thing
>
>
>
>   
    Not in my case. I have not d/l compiz. But I did this:

karl at karl-hardy:~$ locate compiz
/etc/compizconfig
/etc/compizconfig/config
/etc/xdg/compiz
/etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager
/home/karl/.config/compiz
/home/karl/.config/compiz/compizconfig
/home/karl/.config/compiz/compizconfig/config
/home/karl/.gconf/apps/compiz

It is a hundred things not this short list.

    So I do have compiz and why is this the case? I can't think of a 
reason why I want compiz.

Karl


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