Disabling a specific key

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 17:11 -0700, jd1008 wrote:
> > I already did the equivalent of all that using xmodmap and xev. See
> > earlier posts. Furthermore, the request was for a way to do it for
> all
> > input from the keyboard, not just a specific terminal session.
> >
> > Thanks all the same.
> >
> > poc
> >
> I do not  believe you can do it for all input from the KB because
> the KB is somewhat virtualized under , whereas keyboard of /dev/tty is
> still
> under the control of the keymaps, which is modifiable via loadkeys.
> 
> I already posted another reply with .Xdefaults translations for X 
> managed terminals.

As I said in another reply, the .xsession method is working for
everything I've tried except Chrome. I also note that alternate consoles
don't seem to pay attention to the Insert key at Shell level so that's a
non-issue (though they do within Vi).

poc