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by **Torsten Studen** » Wed, 01 Oct 1997 04:00:00

I'm trying to configure my xmodmap so that's possible to use the keys
F13-F20, Help, Do on a DEC-keyboard, but their keycode is partly >
117, which leads to the following problem:

xmodmap: commandline:0: bad keycode value (out of range)
xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.

xmodmap's handle.c uses max_keycode, but I don't know where this
variable is set, I looked up /usr/X11R6/include/xlib.h, but didn't find a
hint to max_keycode beside it's definition. :-(

Simply overriding this if-clause does not work.

Do you have any hint how to persuade the Xserver to accept a
keycode .gt. 117?

Torsten

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by **Kaleb S. KEITHLE** » Wed, 01 Oct 1997 04:00:00

> I'm trying to configure my xmodmap so that's possible to use the keys
> F13-F20, Help, Do on a DEC-keyboard, but their keycode is partly >
> 117, which leads to the following problem:

> xmodmap: commandline:0: bad keycode value (out of range)
> xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.

> xmodmap's handle.c uses max_keycode, but I don't know where this
> variable is set,

You didn't look very hard I guess. If you do a `grep max_keycode *.c` in
the xmodmap sources I think you'll see where it is set.

Quote:> I looked up /usr/X11R6/include/xlib.h, but didn't find a
> hint to max_keycode beside it's definition. :-(

> Simply overriding this if-clause does not work.

> Do you have any hint how to persuade the Xserver to accept a
> keycode .gt. 117?

You have to remember that X is a protocol. Clients, like xmodmap, find
out what the max_keycode is from the server. The way most servers are
written, once it has told the client that the max_keycode is 117, no
amount of protocol is going to change that.

If you're using the XFree86 server, you can get the source and expand
the default keymap in the sources and recompile. As far as that goes, if
you're using the XFree86 server you could cobble up your own XKB keymap
definition that has the extra keys you want and tell the server to use
that keymap.

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keycode > 117 problem.

keycode > 117 problem.

keycode > 117 problem.