How to change PrtSc key to right-click in ubuntu 17.10?
I have Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14 which has "PrtSc" key on the keyboard. I personally find this key totally useless as I prefer using Screenshot application to select the required area and take a snapshot. I am trying to change it's functionality to enabling "right click". But I am not able to find this setting. How to do it?
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keyboard lenovo 17.10 thinkpad print-screen
asked Nov 15 '17 at 16:31
Aniruddha TekadeAniruddha Tekade
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I have Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14 which has "PrtSc" key on the keyboard. I personally find this key totally useless as I prefer using Screenshot application to select the required area and take a snapshot. I am trying to change it's functionality to enabling "right click". But I am not able to find this setting. How to do it?
enter image description here
keyboard lenovo 17.10 thinkpad print-screen
asked Nov 15 '17 at 16:31
Aniruddha TekadeAniruddha Tekade
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Just a pointer, capturing screenshot of a selected area should be accessible by <shift>+<PrtSc>.
– pomsky
Nov 15 '17 at 16:35
@pomsky Thank you so much for your input. Actually I have already done this. But I want to basically change its functionality to "Right Click" whenever I click on any icon or file or directory.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:46
@pomsky that's the catch here. My keyboard does not have Menu Key and I really want to configure my PrtSc key into Menu Key. PrtSc is in between Alt and Ctrl on Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:56
Yes. shift+f10 always works. Thank you for your input. I am waiting for some new answers.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:59
shift+f10 does bring up a context menu but if the focus of the mouse pointer is in an application, Firefox for instance, then the context menu inside Firefox is brought up. The OP said "I prefer using Screenshot application..." so that is not exactly his end goal IMO. See askubuntu.com/a/254822/340383 for reference to how Gnome binds these keys.
– bgoodr
Feb 21 '18 at 16:24
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I have Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14 which has "PrtSc" key on the keyboard. I personally find this key totally useless as I prefer using Screenshot application to select the required area and take a snapshot. I am trying to change it's functionality to enabling "right click". But I am not able to find this setting. How to do it?
enter image description here
keyboard lenovo 17.10 thinkpad print-screen
asked Nov 15 '17 at 16:31
Aniruddha TekadeAniruddha Tekade
11
I have Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14 which has "PrtSc" key on the keyboard. I personally find this key totally useless as I prefer using Screenshot application to select the required area and take a snapshot. I am trying to change it's functionality to enabling "right click". But I am not able to find this setting. How to do it?
enter image description here
keyboard lenovo 17.10 thinkpad print-screen
keyboard lenovo 17.10 thinkpad print-screen
asked Nov 15 '17 at 16:31
Aniruddha TekadeAniruddha Tekade
11
asked Nov 15 '17 at 16:31
Aniruddha TekadeAniruddha Tekade
11
edited Nov 15 '17 at 16:56
Aniruddha Tekade
asked Nov 15 '17 at 16:31
Aniruddha TekadeAniruddha Tekade
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asked Nov 15 '17 at 16:31
Aniruddha TekadeAniruddha Tekade
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asked Nov 15 '17 at 16:31
Aniruddha TekadeAniruddha Tekade
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Just a pointer, capturing screenshot of a selected area should be accessible by <shift>+<PrtSc>.
– pomsky
Nov 15 '17 at 16:35
@pomsky Thank you so much for your input. Actually I have already done this. But I want to basically change its functionality to "Right Click" whenever I click on any icon or file or directory.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:46
@pomsky that's the catch here. My keyboard does not have Menu Key and I really want to configure my PrtSc key into Menu Key. PrtSc is in between Alt and Ctrl on Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:56
Yes. shift+f10 always works. Thank you for your input. I am waiting for some new answers.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:59
shift+f10 does bring up a context menu but if the focus of the mouse pointer is in an application, Firefox for instance, then the context menu inside Firefox is brought up. The OP said "I prefer using Screenshot application..." so that is not exactly his end goal IMO. See askubuntu.com/a/254822/340383 for reference to how Gnome binds these keys.
– bgoodr
Feb 21 '18 at 16:24
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Just a pointer, capturing screenshot of a selected area should be accessible by <shift>+<PrtSc>.
– pomsky
Nov 15 '17 at 16:35
@pomsky Thank you so much for your input. Actually I have already done this. But I want to basically change its functionality to "Right Click" whenever I click on any icon or file or directory.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:46
@pomsky that's the catch here. My keyboard does not have Menu Key and I really want to configure my PrtSc key into Menu Key. PrtSc is in between Alt and Ctrl on Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:56
Yes. shift+f10 always works. Thank you for your input. I am waiting for some new answers.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:59
shift+f10 does bring up a context menu but if the focus of the mouse pointer is in an application, Firefox for instance, then the context menu inside Firefox is brought up. The OP said "I prefer using Screenshot application..." so that is not exactly his end goal IMO. See askubuntu.com/a/254822/340383 for reference to how Gnome binds these keys.
– bgoodr
Feb 21 '18 at 16:24
Just a pointer, capturing screenshot of a selected area should be accessible by <shift>+<PrtSc>.
– pomsky
Nov 15 '17 at 16:35
Just a pointer, capturing screenshot of a selected area should be accessible by <shift>+<PrtSc>.
– pomsky
Nov 15 '17 at 16:35
@pomsky Thank you so much for your input. Actually I have already done this. But I want to basically change its functionality to "Right Click" whenever I click on any icon or file or directory.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:46
@pomsky Thank you so much for your input. Actually I have already done this. But I want to basically change its functionality to "Right Click" whenever I click on any icon or file or directory.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:46
@pomsky that's the catch here. My keyboard does not have Menu Key and I really want to configure my PrtSc key into Menu Key. PrtSc is in between Alt and Ctrl on Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:56
@pomsky that's the catch here. My keyboard does not have Menu Key and I really want to configure my PrtSc key into Menu Key. PrtSc is in between Alt and Ctrl on Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:56
Yes. shift+f10 always works. Thank you for your input. I am waiting for some new answers.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:59
Yes. shift+f10 always works. Thank you for your input. I am waiting for some new answers.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:59
shift+f10 does bring up a context menu but if the focus of the mouse pointer is in an application, Firefox for instance, then the context menu inside Firefox is brought up. The OP said "I prefer using Screenshot application..." so that is not exactly his end goal IMO. See askubuntu.com/a/254822/340383 for reference to how Gnome binds these keys.
– bgoodr
Feb 21 '18 at 16:24
shift+f10 does bring up a context menu but if the focus of the mouse pointer is in an application, Firefox for instance, then the context menu inside Firefox is brought up. The OP said "I prefer using Screenshot application..." so that is not exactly his end goal IMO. See askubuntu.com/a/254822/340383 for reference to how Gnome binds these keys.
– bgoodr
Feb 21 '18 at 16:24
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As a workaround you may access the right click functionality by ≣ (the "menu" key) or Shift+F10 combintion.
The menu key looks like this:
(Image source)
answered Nov 15 '17 at 16:56
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I had the same problem with my T480 with Linux Mint 19 but I managed to fix it using these steps from Fedora forum:
Save the current keyboard map to a new file
xmodmap -pke > ~/.xmodmap
In the file find
keycode 107 = Print Sys_Req Print Sys_Req
change it to
keycode 107 = Menu NoSymbol Menu
and save it.
Load the modified keymap
xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
Now it should work (it does for me) but reboot makes it into default settings.
To fix that, I added the command from step 3. as a start-up command. All works great now.
Source: https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?300542-ThinkPad-X240-Remap-PrtSc-key-to-Right-Click-Menu-Context-Menu
answered Jan 21 at 14:28
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As a workaround you may access the right click functionality by ≣ (the "menu" key) or Shift+F10 combintion.
The menu key looks like this:
(Image source)
answered Nov 15 '17 at 16:56
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As a workaround you may access the right click functionality by ≣ (the "menu" key) or Shift+F10 combintion.
The menu key looks like this:
(Image source)
answered Nov 15 '17 at 16:56
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As a workaround you may access the right click functionality by ≣ (the "menu" key) or Shift+F10 combintion.
The menu key looks like this:
(Image source)
answered Nov 15 '17 at 16:56
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As a workaround you may access the right click functionality by ≣ (the "menu" key) or Shift+F10 combintion.
The menu key looks like this:
(Image source)
answered Nov 15 '17 at 16:56
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I had the same problem with my T480 with Linux Mint 19 but I managed to fix it using these steps from Fedora forum:
Save the current keyboard map to a new file
xmodmap -pke > ~/.xmodmap
In the file find
keycode 107 = Print Sys_Req Print Sys_Req
change it to
keycode 107 = Menu NoSymbol Menu
and save it.
Load the modified keymap
xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
Now it should work (it does for me) but reboot makes it into default settings.
To fix that, I added the command from step 3. as a start-up command. All works great now.
Source: https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?300542-ThinkPad-X240-Remap-PrtSc-key-to-Right-Click-Menu-Context-Menu
answered Jan 21 at 14:28
Petr VseteckaPetr Vsetecka
11
add a comment |
I had the same problem with my T480 with Linux Mint 19 but I managed to fix it using these steps from Fedora forum:
Save the current keyboard map to a new file
xmodmap -pke > ~/.xmodmap
In the file find
keycode 107 = Print Sys_Req Print Sys_Req
change it to
keycode 107 = Menu NoSymbol Menu
and save it.
Load the modified keymap
xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
Now it should work (it does for me) but reboot makes it into default settings.
To fix that, I added the command from step 3. as a start-up command. All works great now.
Source: https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?300542-ThinkPad-X240-Remap-PrtSc-key-to-Right-Click-Menu-Context-Menu
answered Jan 21 at 14:28
Petr VseteckaPetr Vsetecka
11
add a comment |
I had the same problem with my T480 with Linux Mint 19 but I managed to fix it using these steps from Fedora forum:
Save the current keyboard map to a new file
xmodmap -pke > ~/.xmodmap
In the file find
keycode 107 = Print Sys_Req Print Sys_Req
change it to
keycode 107 = Menu NoSymbol Menu
and save it.
Load the modified keymap
xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
Now it should work (it does for me) but reboot makes it into default settings.
To fix that, I added the command from step 3. as a start-up command. All works great now.
Source: https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?300542-ThinkPad-X240-Remap-PrtSc-key-to-Right-Click-Menu-Context-Menu
answered Jan 21 at 14:28
Petr VseteckaPetr Vsetecka
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I had the same problem with my T480 with Linux Mint 19 but I managed to fix it using these steps from Fedora forum:
Save the current keyboard map to a new file
xmodmap -pke > ~/.xmodmap
In the file find
keycode 107 = Print Sys_Req Print Sys_Req
change it to
keycode 107 = Menu NoSymbol Menu
and save it.
Load the modified keymap
xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
Now it should work (it does for me) but reboot makes it into default settings.
To fix that, I added the command from step 3. as a start-up command. All works great now.
Source: https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?300542-ThinkPad-X240-Remap-PrtSc-key-to-Right-Click-Menu-Context-Menu
answered Jan 21 at 14:28
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Just a pointer, capturing screenshot of a selected area should be accessible by <shift>+<PrtSc>.
– pomsky
Nov 15 '17 at 16:35
@pomsky Thank you so much for your input. Actually I have already done this. But I want to basically change its functionality to "Right Click" whenever I click on any icon or file or directory.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:46
@pomsky that's the catch here. My keyboard does not have Menu Key and I really want to configure my PrtSc key into Menu Key. PrtSc is in between Alt and Ctrl on Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:56
Yes. shift+f10 always works. Thank you for your input. I am waiting for some new answers.
– Aniruddha Tekade
Nov 15 '17 at 16:59
shift+f10 does bring up a context menu but if the focus of the mouse pointer is in an application, Firefox for instance, then the context menu inside Firefox is brought up. The OP said "I prefer using Screenshot application..." so that is not exactly his end goal IMO. See askubuntu.com/a/254822/340383 for reference to how Gnome binds these keys.
– bgoodr
Feb 21 '18 at 16:24