How to get out of showkey? Urgent!

William Case billlinux at rogers.com
Mon Dec 12 20:34:30 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 15:30 -0500, William Case wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 20:26 +0000, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > I am trying to set some keys in FC4, so I did:
> > $showkey
> > 
> > And now I can't get out of it! How can I get my machine back?
> > Patiently awaiting your urgent assistance... (and writing from the
> > wife's XP box)
> > 
> > Dotan Cohen
> > http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/biography/221/omarion.php
> > Omarion Song Lyrics and Biography
> > 
> 
> showkey shows *all* keys so there is no keystroke to quit.
> 
> It has 10 sec wait built in.  After 10 sec it returns the command line
> to you.
> 
> check man showkey.
> 
> Regards Bill

Additional info.  I bet its urgent.  Just wait the 10 seconds.  Every
time you touch anything (a key) the 10 second count starts over.

Regards Bill




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