{"id":82,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=82"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"dont-hit-altprntscrn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t hit Alt+PrntScrn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update:<\/b> In BeOS 5, Alt+PrintScrn no longer drops you into the debugger, so this tip isn&#8217;t much of a warning anymore. If you do want to drop into the debugger, hit Alt+PrntScrn+D.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re coming from the Windows world, you may be accustomed to using the Alt+PrintScreen key to limit your screenshots to the active object. Don&#8217;t try this in BeOS! This key combination drops you into the kernel debugger (the PrintScreen key doubles as the SysReq key). However, if you don&#8217;t have serial debugging enabled and aren&#8217;t watching the output on another screen, it will appear that your system has just locked up. For all intents and purposes, it has.<br \/>\nSo: A) this is a feature, not a bug. Don&#8217;t bother reporting it. B) Don&#8217;t try it unless you&#8217;ve saved all your work and you&#8217;re ready to lock up your system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: In BeOS 5, Alt+PrintScrn no longer drops you into the debugger, so this tip isn&#8217;t much of a warning anymore. If you do want to drop into the debugger, hit Alt+PrntScrn+D. If you&#8217;re coming from the Windows world, you may be accustomed to using the Alt+PrintScreen key to limit your screenshots to the active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}