Keybinding (Re: KDE system guard)

Martijn Klingens klingens at kde.org
Tue Oct 11 22:10:13 BST 2005


On Tuesday 11 October 2005 21:59, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Martijn Klingens wrote:
> >meta-menu to open the K menu is also broken, which is extra annoying
> >since meta without extra keys got disabled in 3.4 because of
> > maintainability issues, or so I gathered.
>
> By "menu" do you mean the key between ctrl and the right-hand-side
> windows-logo key?

Yes.

> Make sure that key is bound on X to something useful 
> and not a modifier.

xev says:

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KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 13258764, (80,102), root:(911,129),
    state 0x0, keycode 117 (keysym 0xff20, Multi_key), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 113
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 13258942, (80,102), root:(911,129),
    state 0x0, keycode 117 (keysym 0xff20, Multi_key), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 113
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
------------------

That's on my laptop-with-broken-keymaps though, will verify at work tomorrow 
with suse 9.2.

> Doesn't Alt+F1 open the K menu in four-modif?

No. Most keys have the orginal key as alternative, but this one doesn't.

And it doesn't explain the meta-scrolllock, meta-ctrl-pause and the like 
either.

-- 
Martijn




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