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Is it possible to get of the (~3s) delay one gets when typing a bad command in Fedora 16? My friend keeps changing the key map but the delay is even more annoying.

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"My friend keeps changing the keymap but the delay is even more annoying." - How is this related to the question? – Michael K Jan 30 at 15:39
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If you are talking about bash shell commands, there isn't normally any delay after entering a command that bash doesn't recognise. Can you give an example of a command, an error message and indicate exactly when the delay occurs? – RedGrittyBrick Jan 30 at 15:40
'bash: sl: command not found...' Followed by a 3s delay. Seems to be fedora specific. – tommyo Jan 30 at 17:07
Michael K: How is this relevant to the question? – tommyo Feb 6 at 13:51
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This is most likely the bash command not found handler. If you check /etc/bashrc or whereever the global bash config file for your distribution is, you should see something like

command_not_found_handle() {

   # what to do
}

This may be included into bashrc from external source.

You can prevent this behaviour by unsetting the function in your ~/.bashrc (or just commenting out the function in the global script):

 unset -f command_not_found_handle
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In Fedora 16, this extremely annoying feature is enabled by PackageKit.sh. You can disable it, (as root), by renaming the offending script so that it doesn't have a .sh extension. For example:

mv /etc/profile.d/PackageKit.sh /etc/profile.d/PackageKit.sh.disabled
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