turn off extra buttons Dell N411Z

I’ve got a Dell N411Z laptop. Nothing flashy, and it got dropped on one corner so when I adjust the tilt of the screen, the broken hinge triggers a button, which randomly sends a signal for the letter ‘x’ to whatever app is active at the time. Here are my notes to get it to quit doing that.

install ‘xbindkeys’ (available in main repositories for both Ubuntu and Fedora). You have to find out what the ‘signal’ looks like to xbindkeys, do so by running xbindkeys -k It tells you then to push a key. Just push the key at the top (the left two are the same signal, the right is a different one as I recall but it doesn’t work anymore). I got this out of it:

"(Scheme function)"
 m:0x40 + c:133
 Mod4 + Super_L

So then I paste that into ~/.xbindkeysrc, replacing the “(Scheme function)”; part with just “”. Then to make it take effect, just run xbindkeys -p and you’re golden.

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