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From: envbvs@epb7.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: F1 Key under DECwindows Ultrix 4.0 and color icons under Mwm
Message-ID: <9829@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 13 Feb 91 00:28:32 GMT
References: <1991Feb12.135528@ecovsb.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: envbvs@epb7.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
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X-Local-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 91 16:28:32 PST

In article <1991Feb12.135528@ecovsb.ncsu.edu>, willis@ecovsb.ncsu.edu (Bill
Willis) writes:
|> 
|> Does anybody know how to stop the X server under Ultrix 4.0 from binding the
|> F1 Key to a hold screen function. I need to use the key for something
|> else...
|> 

It isn't the server that is doing this, but either the Ultrix keyboard driver
itself or worse, possibly something even lower than that (rom?)
I have not found any way to disable this "feature" that DEC has so thoughtfully
provided for us :-)

-- 
Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.