Unknown use of F9 key

[Karl Larsen]

Ulin the Tech Mage wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 12:54 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>>> 	Linux User
>>>> 	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
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>>>>         
>>> its a compiz thing
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>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     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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>>
>> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>> 	Linux User
>> 	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
>>    PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C  ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7
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>>     
> compiz comes with ubuntu. if you go into appearance > and visual effects
> you will see 3 options: none, normal and extra. if either of the second
> 2 are selected, compiz is enabled
>
>
>   
    Interesting! I did try both 2 and 3 on this nVidia computer and it 
would not support either. It would not make a desktop and it was hard to 
get back to none again :-)

    Why would a nVidia VGA device have trouble with compiz I wonder? I 
wonder is there a way to test compiz for suitability on a particular 
computer? I will try it on my laptop and see if it works there.

Karl


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