Magic Sysreg key problems.

[Joe Zeff]

On 08/20/2012 12:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> It is hard to know where to start with the problems with the use of the
> SysReg key.. Since acording to the Wikipedia notes in order to get these
> Magic SysReg features to work you have tp add the Ctrl button. So to
> reboot you would have to use the Ctrl+Alt+SysReg+ b button. On my
> workstation Keyboard this is nearly impossible to do because of the
> position of the SysReg key in the upper right corner of the keyboard.
> On my laptop where I can hit the keys the function fails to work.
> Without the Ctrl all you get is screen shots which I do get.
>
> With the alternate approach  of:
> echo key > /proc/sysreq-trigger the reboot works but I can't detect
> anything else working.
>
> So how does one use these magic keys ?
>

I can't speak for anybody else, but when I've experimented with it, I 
used both hands.