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Re: Disabling the CTRL+S -> Scroll Lock binding in terminals



On Mon, 26 May 1997, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> I noticed that in my Linux (a RedHat 4.1, with possible remnants from
RH 4.0) pressing CTRL+S is similiar to pressing the Scroll Lock button.
This binding occurs whether in a virtual terminal or an xterm program.
Yet, other X programs (such as nedit) may interpret CTRL+S as something else.
>
> In a virtual terminal I can cancel its effects by pressing scroll-lock,
but it won't work on an xterm. The xterm simply stucks, leaving me no
choice but to close it and kill its process. I find it very disturbing,
because I am used to using CTRL+S as the save document sequence. 
> 
> Does anybody knows of any way with which I can cancel this binding?

I don't know how to cancel it but it has been already mentioned here not a
long ago that Ctrl-Q unlocks the keyboard after Ctrl-S locked it. Ctrl-Q
works in an xterm as well.



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