On Wednesday 08 June 2016 06:08:20 Lisi Reisz wrote:

> On Wednesday 08 June 2016 10:30:49 J. Drahun wrote:
> > 08.06.2016 04:09, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Perhaps yours will work with the FN+printscr key too?
> >
> > Unfortunately it doesn't.
>
> Your system seems to be a good advertisement for a fresh install!!
>
> Lisi

I wouldn't say that.  There are it seems about 126! ways to respond to a 
keyboards output.  And as you'll find out, double-floats falls over in 
its morning bowl of oats at anything greater than 69!, where the ! is 
the factorial of N. 126 would be well beyond the number of seconds since 
the big bang.  70 overflows our 16 or 17 digit, displays 12+exponent 100 
dollar and up calculators. But I am amazed that kcalc, the old version 
with bitfield display, can actually give what looks like a sensible 
answer as it CAN display an exponent as a 3 digit number.

The x! of 126 is 2.37217324288e+211, and that folks is one BIG number. :)

I'd say that J. Drahun could waste a morning trying the various keyboards 
that ARE im that mutiselector choice I mentioned in the last post, until 
he finds one that matches the keyboard he has closely enough that this 
stuff works.  Or I assume he can mouse thru the menu's to find 
ksnapshot, and that should work but its a lot slower than the hot keys 
because you have to hunt for it.  I've been, up to this thread, hunting 
thru the manu's when I needed a screen or window snapshot, so I've 
learned a much quicker way.

If he should be so lucky that his keyboard is actually IN that list, he 
has won the lottery.  There is, but I forget the name of it, an x 
utility that can show the exact byte stream coming from the keyboard.

Whether that would be helpfull, IDK, but its there even if it has to be 
installed.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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