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This is my first time posting here. I have been working with Linux not for a bit, but I'm still getting the hang of it sometimes.

At some given point in time my save combination Ctrl+s stopped working, not in internet browsers, not in Emacs, nor gedit.. doesn't work at all. I checked if the buttons work and they do, but the combinations doesn't. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?

To be more precise, Left Ctrl-S doesn't work, but Right Ctrl-S works normally, which is weird..

Not sure if related, but: I got this new laptop that has some extra keys and I wanted to assign a special function to them, so I played around with xbindkeys and it worked fine, but I don't know if it affected my combination..

Thank you all!

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64x on a Lenovo Thinkpad E540

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  • Does left ctrl work in other combinations?
    – Sparhawk
    Dec 13, 2014 at 0:00
  • Yes, all other left and right ctrl combinations seem to work. I also looked at the existing shortcuts but found no match
    – MasterApprentice
    Dec 13, 2014 at 0:40
  • Hm, not sure what else to add, but you could try running xev in a terminal, then confirming that left ctrl results in keysym 0xffe3, Control_L. Perhaps also test s (keysym 0x73, s) and the right control too (keysym 0xffe4, Control_R).
    – Sparhawk
    Dec 13, 2014 at 0:42
  • they all seem to be working fine when pressed separately. if i put in a combo Ctrl_R-s it just states those two separately, but if I press Ctrl_L-s, it says that i pressed Alt_L... and also something about Sys_Rec
    – MasterApprentice
    Dec 13, 2014 at 0:53
  • Oh, that does seem odd. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what else to suggest. Hopefully someone else can help. Also, if disabling xbindkeys fixes it, you might want to investigate xkb instead (or the older xmodmap).
    – Sparhawk
    Dec 13, 2014 at 1:05

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I seems that on my Lenovo Thinkpad E540 the problem was the BIOS switching of Ctrl and Fn key.. It's still isnt clear to me why the other shortcuts with the fake Ctrl worked tho..

Thank you all!

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