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by **Holger Schem** » Wed, 02 Feb 1994 22:03:11

Hello!

I have the following problem:

I want to remap a key under XFree86 so that it is remapped to a
control-key-sequence, e.g. every time I press the 'a' key, all
X programs recognize it as, say, 'CTRL-z'.
It seems that this cannot be done with the regular '.Xmodmap' file
or the xmodmap program, because I can define what should happen when
I press <key>, Shift-<key>, Alt-<key> and Control-<key>, but I cannot
(I think so..) define that every <key1> should be defined as a
<qualifier>-<key2>.

The goal of all this is to remap the 'Delete' key to 'Ctrl-d', because
under X both the 'Delete' and the 'Backspace' key produce a "delete the
character left of the cursor", but no key produces a "delete the character
that is marked by the cursor", which is done by Ctrl-d (When I use the
.Xmodmap keysym 'DRemove' or 'apLineDel', it is only recognized by xterm,
while Ctrl-d is recognized by nearly every X program).

If anyone knows anything about what to do - mail me or post it, please!

Thanks in advance!

Greetings
Holger

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by **Andries Brouw** » Thu, 03 Feb 1994 02:01:48

...

Quote:>The goal of all this is to remap the 'Delete' key to 'Ctrl-d'

...

Have you tried
xmodmap -e "keysym Delete = 0x04"
?

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