print screen

Raymond House raymondh40 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 17:00:03 UTC 2014


I tried ask ubuntu solutions with no results, but I noticed that when I
inverted english uk with english us the @ symbol became " ? I think I'm a
bit over my head here.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK Stephen, thanks for the info, I think I recall something I got on log
> in, once, about key mapping, but that's way out for my computer knowledge,
> but thanks, I'll see if I can dig something up on that.
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Stephen M. Webb <
> stephen.webb at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/12/2014 06:50 AM, Raymond House wrote:
>> > I get the screenshot window when I try that command, and by the way,
>> screenshot works ok, it's the print screen that
>> > does not.
>>
>> Normally the Print Screen (or "PrtScn SysRq" on my keyboard) key is
>> mapped to the gnome-printscreen application by the
>> gnome-session daemon (run automatically when you log in in order to do
>> things like that).  That's how the print screen
>> function works: it runs the gnome-screenshot application.  If the
>> application runs OK from the command line (as you
>> indicate), it's likely that the cause is the key mapping has been set to
>> something else.
>>
>> Note that on a freshly-installed Ubuntu Vivid system, pressing the Print
>> Screen key still works as expected.  I suspect
>> a local configuration issue.
>>
>> How to identify the exact setting isn't something I can help with, but at
>> least this information can help narrow down
>> the search for the cause.
>>
>> --
>> Stephen M. Webb  <stephen at ubuntu.com>
>> https://launchpad.net/~bregma
>>
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