KDE Improvement??

Praveen Ray praveen.ray at crcnet1.com
Fri Aug 9 05:08:57 BST 2002


Yes! It works!!

On Friday 09 August 2002 12:05 am, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
> On Thursday 08 August 2002 11:22 pm, Praveen Ray wrote:
> | I think the actual modmap command is :
> | xmodmap -e "keycode 115 = F29"
> | This is will bind F29 to 'win' key.
> | I couldn't figure out how to do the other part ie link F29 to KDE menu
> | popup.
>
> KDE control panel -> Look & Feel -> Shortcuts -> Global Shortcuts -> Panel
> -> Popup Launch menu
>
> Pick "Custom"; hit Windows key.
>
> In KDE3.  Similar in other KDE versions but not identical.
>
> | On Thursday 08 August 2002 11:15 pm, Brad Potts wrote:
> | > Brian,
> | >
> | > Here is what I get when I run xev and then I click the "windows" key:
> | >
> | > KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x2200001,
> | >     root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 2365491217, (185,316), root:(189,361),
> | >     state 0x40, keycode 115 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
> | >     XLookupString gives 0 characters:  ""
> | >
> | > I tried doing this to get the map to work, but you see I get an error:
> | >
> | > [root at toybox bpotts]# xmodmap keycode 115=F29
> | > xmodmap:  unable to open file 'keycode' for reading
> | > xmodmap:  unable to open file '115=F29' for reading
> | > xmodmap:  2 errors encountered, aborting.
> | >
> | > Am I doing this wrong?  I read the instructions a few times thinking I
> | > was missing something, but I'm seeming to have trouble with this.....
> | >
> | > Any other suggestions?
> | >
> | > Thanks in advance,
> | > Brad Potts
> | >
> | > On Thursday 08 August 2002 12:54 pm, you wrote:
> | > > Two stages.  First, you have to use xmodmap to map the Windows key to
> | > > something recognizable.  The following may work, but if not, just use
> | > > "xev" to see what key event that key sends.
> | > >
> | > > What I have pasted in here is my entire xmodmap.  You are only really
> | > > interested in the
> | > >
> | > > keycode 117 = F29
> | >
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-Praveen
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