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Anyone know how to map those darn "Winblows" keys to something useful?  I
remember reading about them somewhere .. and the new Xkeysyms? thingy
with support for the Microsoft Natural made me wonder.  Any clues?

Homer Chiang

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Quote:> Anyone know how to map those darn "Winblows" keys to something useful?

XkbKeymap   "xfree86(us_microsoft)"

to the "Keyboard" section of your XF86Config file.  That binds the
windows keys to Meta_L and Meta_R, and the menu key to (surprise!)
Menu.

If you want to re-bind them, just use xmodmap.

Getting your applications to do something useful in response to the
keys is a separate issue.  :)

-john

     David A. Madore

     http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/index.html.en)

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> Anyone know how to map those darn "Winblows" keys to something useful?  I
> remember reading about them somewhere .. and the new Xkeysyms? thingy
> with support for the Microsoft Natural made me wonder.  Any clues?

> Homer Chiang

....... a lot of keycodes ....
keycode 100 = Left
keycode 101 = Begin
keycode 102 = Right
keycode 103 = End
keycode 104 = Down
keycode 105 = Next
keycode 106 = Insert
keycode 107 = Delete
keycode 108 = KP_Enter
keycode 109 = Control_R
keycode 110 = Pause
keycode 111 = Print
keycode 112 = KP_Divide
keycode 113 = Mode_switch
keycode 114 = Break
keycode 115 = bar slash backslash
keycode 116 = slash braceleft bracketleft
keycode 117 = backslash braceright

The keycodes are 115, 116 and 117 - I've put bar slash and backslash
on the keys since I'm using a german keyboard ...

Hope this helps, Sebastian
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