ctrl+shift+L mysteriously absorbed. Saucy 64-bit.

**rickyseltzer** · November 11th, 2013

Something is absorbing ctrl+shift+L. Can you help me find what?
I've looked in all the obvious configuration screens in settings and in the tweaks programs.
In sublime-text, the key simply does not appear when I ask it to display keystrokes. All the other keystrokes display fine.
In terminator, ctrl+shift+L flashes the top bar (containing the current directory and the character dimensions of the screen).

Xev shows different kinds of output from ctrl+shift+K and ctrl+shift+L:

First Ctrl+Shift+K, key-up and key-down:

KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x6800001,
root 0x91, subw 0x0, time 20311193, (146,80), root:(1507,132),
state 0x15, keycode 45 (keysym 0x4b, K), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0b) "
"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0b) "
"
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x6800001,
root 0x91, subw 0x0, time 20311305, (146,80), root:(1507,132),
state 0x15, keycode 45 (keysym 0x4b, K), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0b) "
"
XFilterEvent returns: False

Now Ctrl+Shift+L, key-up and key-down are only one event!

KeymapNotify event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys: 4294967185 0 0 0 32 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Any help would be appreciated. I guess I have configured something wrong.
~/.Xmodmap has only a pointer line, for scrolling.

**Frogs Hair** · November 11th, 2013

Something is absorbing ctrl+shift+L

Can you please explain what is meant by this . I don't see that key binding associated with any actions in key board settings, but the action may be disabled on my system. What action and in what program is the key-binding used ?

**rickyseltzer** · November 11th, 2013

It's a command in the text editor sublime-text. It modifies the scope of selected text. But it doesn't work.
I started tracking this down on the forum for the sublime-text editor. There's a diagnostic command to display all keystrokes.
ctrl-shift-K appears but ctrl-shift-L does not. So I tried those keystrokes outside of the editor in xev and got the strange results above.

**Frogs Hair** · November 11th, 2013

If it is the program at the link I see that is not available in the software-center and don't know about compatibility with 13.10 . I download and started the unregistered version of Sublime Text 2 and don't get any action from the key-binding inside or outside of the program

http://www.sublimetext.com/

**rickyseltzer** · November 11th, 2013

Make a 5-line text selection and hit ctrl shift L, it's supposed to change to multiple selections. That is, replacing 5 lines of text with the letter 'a' would result in 4 lines deleted and one 'a'. But if you do ctrl shift L first, then each of the 5 lines is replaced by an 'a', resulting in 5 lines with only 'a'.

The doc on what the keystrokes are supposed to do is here:http://docs.sublimetext.info/en/late...ons-into-lines
The sublime-text support forum discussion is here: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/vie...hp?f=3&t=14595