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Re: [trinity-devel] R: [trinity-devel] Keyboard issues

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 20:28:32 +0100
Am Dienstag, 4. Februar 2014 schrieb David C. Rankin:
> On 02/04/2014 12:14 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote:
> > I'm referring to the right Win key. The left Win key doesn't do 
> > anything on my system. I want to disable the right Win key because 
> > I am tired of the popup menus appearing when I inadvertently bump 
> > the key.
> > 
> > I spent about a half-hour last night trying to figure out how to 
> > disable the right Win key. I still haven't found a way. I'd settle 
> > for an xorg.conf solution too if I can fid one.
> 
> God that is frustrating, and I think Michele is correct, the base definitions
> will be in the xkb definitions outside tde. Now the way tde handles them may be
> tweaked. It has been years since I chased that rabbit down, but if you don't
> find an option to change it in tde, then it is a pass-through from xkb and you
> will have to see what tde does to catch the other keys and probably add a
> specific catch for the rt-win.
> 

The xmodkeymap approach:

Start "xev" and figure out what your right Win key is. On my keyboard pressing/releasing it gives these events:

KeyPress event, serial 39, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001,
    root 0x29a, subw 0x0, time 43557188, (171,-13), root:(233,415),
    state 0x2000, keycode 134 (keysym 0xffec, Super_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 39, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001,
    root 0x29a, subw 0x0, time 43557236, (171,-13), root:(233,415),
    state 0x2040, keycode 134 (keysym 0xffec, Super_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

So my keycode for "right Win" is 134. Now let's remap it - every decent programmer needs lambda on his thumbs:

$ xmodmap - << XXX
keycode 134 = Greek_lambda
XXX

or disable the key:

$ xmodmap - << XXX
keycode 134 =  
XXX

I put this in my .xinitrc and added this xinit.desktop-entry to .trinity/Autostart - just the Exec-Line is important:

[Desktop Entry]
Exec[$e]=bash '/home/nik/.xinitrc'


hope it helps.

Nik




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