[xubuntu-users] Disabling Ctrl-A and/or remapping Select-All to another key combination.

[Hartmut Haase]

Hi Jeff,
on my keygoard it is Caps Lock, but as I had asimilar problem, I just removed it.

Am 29. Juni 2020 19:15:20 MESZ schrieb Jeffery Small <jefferysmall at gmail.com>:
>On 06-29, Hartmut Haase wrote:
>>just to get you right: is on your keyboard the Ctrl key left beside
>the A
>key?
>
>Exactly!  That's the UNIX layout as opposed to the Windows or Mac
>layout.
>
>
>On 06-29, Michele Mor wrote:
>>If I'm not mistaken, you can look at the keyboard application.
>>Look at Settings | Keyboard, then you'll find a tab with Application
>>shortcut. In there you can change or remove shortcut
>
>Interesting!  I've made many keyboard assignments here, but I never
>though
>to try
>reassigning a low-level function like this.  I assigned the command
>"true"
>to Ctrl-A
>and this did indeed deactivate the select-all function system wide. 
>Thank
>you!
>
>In Firefox I can still select-all using Alt-A which is apparently built
>into this program.
>Do you or anyone else know how to now assign "select-all" to Alt-A or
>some
>other
>shortcut?  This Keyboard utility is looking for a system command to
>assign
>to a
>shortcut and there is nothing like that for select-all.  I would like
>to
>make the
>assignment so that the function is available in other applications.
>
>Thank you all for the help!
>
>
>I wrote:
>>>Xubuntu 19.10
>>>
>>>I'm a left-handed two-finger typist and often accidentally hit the
>Control
>>>key when typing an "a" on my UNIX-style keyboard, which ends up
>selecting
>>>everything -- typically in a browser (Firefox) form, but elsewhere as
>>>well.  Is there some facility in Xubuntu where this mapping can de
>disabled
>>>or reassigned?  I notice that in Firefox at least, Alt-A already
>performs
>>>the Select-All function so disabling Ctrl-A would address most of my
>>>concerns.

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Viele Grüße
Hartmut Haase
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