Disabling the print-screen key inside X?

Posted by tong on Sun 15 Jan 2006 at 16:45

The "print screen" key is next to the BS key on my keyboard. Every time when I miss the BS key by hitting the "print screen" key, a screen snapshot is printed from my (InkJet) printer.

This has been so annoying that I decided to solve it. I'm using fluxbox, but I didn't find any such action in its hot-key def file (/etc/X11/fluxbox/keys), or in my theme file. Is such feature defined in X?

How can I disable the "print screen" key from printing to my printer?


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