[plug] PrintScreen of death

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Sun Jun 9 12:48:22 WST 2002


Plug,

I finally established that pressing the PrintScreen key in an Eterm,
kills the window and everything within it. Upon further
investigation, it's supposedly a "feature" of Eterm to be able to
print the current console to a printer or pipe it somewhere.
Examining closely, Eterm spits back the following message before it
dies:

Eterm:  Warning:  Running setuid/setgid.  Refusing to use custom
printpipe.
sh: lp: command not found

I figure it's because it can't find lp it's dieing and I can't force
it to use something else (like lpr) because its running setgid utmp.

Does anybody know how I can disable this "feature"? I don't like my
terminals dieing on me when I inadvertently hit PrtSc.

Thanks in advance,

Bernard.

-- 
 Bernard Blackham
 bernard at blackham.com.au
 Australian Linux Technical Conference 2003: http://conf.linux.org.au/



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