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My right control key on my keyboard sticks. I hit it accidentally often enough that I'd like to make it do absolutely nothing when it's hit. Is this possible?

dessert
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begtognen
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Use xev to find out what the keycode is. My Control_R is 105. Then run this:

xmodmap -e 'keycode 105 = NoSymbol'

If that works, head into the start-up applications dialogue and add a new entry to run that command on boot.

Oli
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  • If you put 'keycode 105 = NoSymbol' in ~/.xmodmap, your session manager should ask you to automatically apply it on next startup. – Jacob May 18 '11 at 18:10
  • Oli - Thanks so much. The command works beautifully.

    I did add a Startup with the command "xmodmap -e 'keycode 105 = NoSymbol'" but it didn't work for some reason. Any ideas?

    Jacob - Will it hurt anything if I create ~/.xmodmap myself? I don't seem to have one already.

     – begtognen May 20 '11 at 15:53