hey, Tomi: in the g. snooper chat the command
ctrl+X wasn't working for me earlier (typing and ctrl+A, ctrl+C, delete, backspace etc. were unaffected). i can't replicate this behavior now, but let me know if anybody encounters something similar (i'll be back!) or why it was happening.
it ended up going away on its own without closing the program 12 hours later when i was making this post (
to initially complain ctrl+X wasnt working period 
) i would write it off as another program blocking the hotkey, but it was working everywhere else fine (and i haven't closed anything since then).
thanks.