Disabling a specific key

[jd1008]

On 12/18/2014 03:55 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:34:54 +1300
> Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>> On 19/12/14 08:27, jd1008 wrote:
>>> If you do not know the KeyCode, run the program:
>>> showkey
>>>
>>> and press the key in question
>>> and it's code will be displayed.
>>> You must wait 10 seconds of idle
>>> and showkey program will exit;
>>> then run the sudo script above.
>>>
>> This looks very useful to me .... but as usual I fall at the first
>> hurdle.  When I type showkey or "showkey -k" I get:
>>
>>> Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
>> And that's it.  Anything I can do about this?  (Please note:  I am
>> running Fedora 17 --- yes, I know --- and using a Mate desktop; Mate
>> 1.6.1 .)
> You need to run showkey in a proper virtual terminal, aka ctrl-alt-f3
> or such. It was not designed to work under X.
>
> HTH, :-)
> Marko
>
>
Correct! I forgot about that. I thought the OP was talking
about the console, like /dev/tty...