Unknown use of F9 key

[Ulin the Tech Mage]

On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 12:54 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Ulin the Tech Mage wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 12:08 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >   
> >> Kim Goldenberg wrote:
> >>     
> >>> I'm not sure what has attached itself to the F9 key, but whenever I 
> >>> press it the whole desktop goes dim, and only comes back if I press 
> >>> another F-key or click with the mouse. As I have several applications 
> >>> that use the F9 key, this has become an annoyance. I suspect that it 
> >>> was something that was either installed, then removed or something 
> >>> updated. I also suspect it was set as a key and the action program no 
> >>> longer exists, but the software to call it still traps the key press. 
> >>> Fortunately for some things Shift-F9 works for many of them, but it is 
> >>> hard to retrain my fingers, and I would like to fix this.
> >>>
> >>> I am looking for suggestions on how to debug this, more than actual 
> >>> fixes, but will take anything people can suggest.
> >>>
> >>> Running Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64, up to date Intel core-duo processor, 2GB 
> >>> memory.
> >>>
> >>> TIA
> >>>
> >>> Kim
> >>>       
> >>     Well Kim my Hardy I discover F9 causes my Thunderbird to check for 
> >> new email :-)
> >> This is not something I use because I don't use F9 at all. But odd 
> >> things I agree.
> >>
> >> Karl
> >>
> >>
> >> -- 
> >>
> >> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> >> 	Linux User
> >> 	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
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> >>
> >>
> >>     
> > its a compiz thing
> >
> >
> >
> >   
>     Not in my case. I have not d/l compiz. But I did this:
> 
> karl at karl-hardy:~$ locate compiz
> /etc/compizconfig
> /etc/compizconfig/config
> /etc/xdg/compiz
> /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager
> /home/karl/.config/compiz
> /home/karl/.config/compiz/compizconfig
> /home/karl/.config/compiz/compizconfig/config
> /home/karl/.gconf/apps/compiz
> 
> It is a hundred things not this short list.
> 
>     So I do have compiz and why is this the case? I can't think of a 
> reason why I want compiz.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> 	Linux User
> 	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
>    PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C  ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7
> 
> 
compiz comes with ubuntu. if you go into appearance > and visual effects
you will see 3 options: none, normal and extra. if either of the second
2 are selected, compiz is enabled