After upgrading to 11.10, when pressing Ctrl+F, Xterm is popping up
Solution 1
The culprit is xbinkeys, a software made to create custom shortcuts. The CTRL+F lauching xterm is an example in the configuration file (~.xbindkeysrc). Since Ubuntu 11.10 doesn't realise it is an example and use it by default, overriding all other uses of CTRL+F.
In order to set things back to normal do as follow :
- Open your home folder, and press CTRL+H to show hidden files.
- Open the file .xbindkeysrc (with gedit).
- Add a pound (#) at the beginning of each line starting with "xterm" and the following one (most probably lines 46-47 and 50-51).
- Save and exit.
- Then either logout/login again or restart xbindkeys:
killall -HUP xbindkeys
Solution 2
I have the same problem. I upgraded to 11.10 and installed xbindkeys.
Here is the way that you can fix this problem:
1) Alt-F2 -> type xbindkeys-config -> Run
2) Select two items that are related to xterms and delete them.
3) Click save and quite.
It then works normally as before.
Dilshod Tadjibaev
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Dilshod Tadjibaev almost 2 years
Yesterday I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10. I can't use CTRL+F key combination anymore. It is remap to launch Xterm.
Does anyone know how to remove this mapping? I have never mapped to this key combination and not sure how this came about.
Thanks!
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Cerin over 10 yearsThanks for the fix. What an idiotic default keybinding for the xbindkeys package to use...