On Thu, 17 May 2012 17:24:57 +0000 Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, Paul. > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:30:50PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, Gentoo! > > > > Just this past hour, I've noticed that in Gnome 2, any depression > > > of <up> wants to create a .png image of my current desktop. This > > > is regardless of which application is currently active. This is > > > particularly irritating in Firefox, where I want <up> to scroll > > > the screen. > > > > I suspect this might have been caused by a recent update to > > > the ?event library (I can't remember exactly what this was). > > > > I hate it when people do "clever" things like this. How can I > > > make it stop? > > > I would downgrade to previous version of the evdev driver and see if > > it helps. > > I do > emerge =dev-libs/libevent-2.0.16 > and restart X windows. Everything now works properly. (The recently > emerged libevent was 2.0.18.) > > > Or disable/change the shortcut for print screen as a > > temporary workaround. > > I tried this (in Gnome 2) with System/Preferences/Keyboard > Shortcuts/Desktop/Take a screenshot. It was set to <Print> and I left > it there. > > Similarly, "Take a screenshot of a window" was set to <Alt+Print>. > Typing <Alt+up> triggered this. > > I think there's something wrong with libevent-2.0.18. Does anybody > get problems in KDE or XFCE? > No problems with KDE-4.8.3 and libevent-2.0.19 here libevent-2.0.19 was merged here 5 May and libevent-2.0.18 on 26 Mar. In all that time I never noticed anything strange with screenshots. So it must be a gnome-specific bug -- Alan McKinnnon [email protected]
