My keyboard has gone mad and keeps pressing the page down/number 3 key, it happens quite frequently. I have an idea of how I can disable it but when I try to get it's keycode it doesn't give me any input at all.
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1Does this answer your question? How do I make a key on the keyboard do *nothing*? – karel Feb 09 '23 at 02:32
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You could try this.
How do I make a key on the keyboard do *nothing*?
I found that when starting xev it was best to start it from a terminal/command line. It starts a separate window by default.
I guess this is used to capture the events. In my case the new window didn't give any feedback but there was output in the terminal where I started it and I could see the key press and release events there.
xev -event keyboard
My output looked like this:
KeyRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
root 0x20a, subw 0x0, time 446757386, (133,520), root:(1097,558),
state 0x0, keycode 89 (keysym 0xff9b, KP_Next), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
You can then use xmodmap to set the key to do nothing.
xmodmap -e 'keycode 89 = NoSymbol'
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