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I've been making a script which makes you unable to exit the terminal, unless you enter "yes". I've used this command to disable the Alt key temporarily.

xdotool keyup Alt_L Alt_R

I am now unable to "release" the key and my Alt key doesn't work properly anymore. I did try

xdotool keydown Alt_L Alt_R

which resulted in constant pressing of the Alt key. I did find out, that uninstalling xdotool makes the Alt key working again. Yet I still need the Xdotool. Therefore this is not a option for me.

Can you help me "release" the Alt key and neither make it pressed, nor permanently unpressed?

Some additional information:
I am using Linux Mint 18. And my script is running with bash.

Thomas Bauer
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  • yeah it was about programming – Thomas Bauer Jun 19 '17 at 07:12

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Okay you will hate me for this answer. My mistake was that I had "Save session" in the options restarting. This resulted in a forkbomb curl command loop and it didn't release the alt key. I will try this keydown command again and then see what happens. I am not sure if this is only on Linux mint 18, or on other Linux distros.

Thomas Bauer
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