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Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

From Jeff <jffry@posteo.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window
Date 2021-10-19 21:20 +0200
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Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your suggestion.

On 17/10/2021 13:53, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> If your suspicion is right, xev should show lots of such Key* events
> as soon as its receiver window gets the focus, without you pressing any
> key at the keyboard. In that case, end xev and look at the messages
> on the terminal window or in file  /tmp/xev.log .

Yup:

KeyPress event, serial 68, synthetic NO, window 0x6600001,
      root 0x238, subw 0x0, time 3095352, (168,-22), root:(1030,437),
      state 0x110, keycode 248 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
      XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
      XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
      XFilterEvent returns: False

Which sent me here:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=105326

In my case, there were multiple devices called "Cherry Keyboard", so I 
used the following to disable the one sending the spurious events:

Section "InputClass"
         Identifier "disable cherry key"
         MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event4"
         Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

Thanks for the help!

Regards

Jeff

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Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window Jeff <jffry@posteo.net> - 2021-10-15 13:40 +0200
  Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-10-17 14:00 +0200
    Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window Jeff <jffry@posteo.net> - 2021-10-19 21:20 +0200
      Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-10-19 22:40 +0200
        Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window Jeff <jffry@posteo.net> - 2021-10-21 18:50 +0200

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