How to remove bound keys created in xbindkeys?

Question

I'm a beginner.

I used xbindkeys program to create a shortcut to my browser. The shortcut is Ctrl+1 a while back. I want to remove this shortcut.

When I look in xbindkeys-config now, there are no shortcuts shown, but the shortcut still works!

I don't know how to find the shortcut, let alone remove it!

Thanks for your help.

Anwar · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-05 10:07:28Z

6

Open a terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T shortcut and use this command to reset the keyboard shortcuts to default
```
xbindkeys --defaults > ~/.xbindkeysrc
```
Then kill the xbindkeys daemon process with the command:
```
killall xbindkeys
```
and start it again with command
```
xbindkeys 
```

Hope this will help.

answered Oct 5 '12 at 10:07

Anwar

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I used the same shortcut and removed it later. – Anwar Oct 5 '12 at 10:10
i would just kill all processed named xbindkeys – krumpelstiltskin Nov 10 '14 at 18:11

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