Fix prt sc button on HP TM2 on LInux
Fix prt sc button on HP TM2 on LInux
I am running Fedora linux 10 on an HP TouchSmart TM2 laptop. Most things work well such as the touchscreen and the screen rotate but the print screen (screenshot) button was not working properly. Here is how I fixed it.
You must install the following package.
Go to your users home directory.
If there is not already a file called .xbindkeysrc create it.
touch /home/youruser/.xbindkeysrc
Make sure the following is in the file.
# Fix the Print Screen key on HP tm2
"gnome-screenshot"
m:0x0 + c:118
Insert
Save and close the file.
Test it by running the following in a command line.
xbindkeys -v -f /home/youruser/.xbindkeysrc
This press the "FN + Insert/prn sc" key on your TM2 and you should see the print screen/screenshot dialog pop up as it should.
To make sure that this is already running for us on boot we add this into our gnome session properties.
From a command line run the following (as your logged in user).
Bonus Info:
I found the entry to put into the .xbindkeysrc file by running the following command on the HP tm2 laptop.
"xbindkeys -mk"
You then hit the keys you would like to use for whatever command you would like to run. It should return something similar to what I gave you above.
xbindkeys is a very powerful tool and can be used to setup your media keys (play/pause/etc) to control media players or to run other commands or scripts on your system.