mnikhil m wrote:
Hi , I think yu can use gconf-editor and go to apps->metacity->and
configure your keyboardshortcuts there:)
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:42:34 +0000, Malcolm Cowe <malk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've finally managed to sit down and spend a little time with XKB in order to wean myself off Xmodmap and get control of my keyboard back under GNOME.
Since I have been reading elsewhere that other people have had issues with Xmodmap and GNOME interoperability and since I have previously posted about this on fedora-list, I thought I'd write a quick note on the, let's call it technique, I employed. It's actually quite similar to the method I originally used to set up my Xmodmap file.
Launch xev from a terminal window. While the xev target window has focus, I press all of the keys which need to be configured. The output is quite verbose. The following example is for the eject key on a UK Macintosh keyboard:
KeyPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001, root 0x8d, subw 0x0, time 3056554, (-600,696), root:(492,745), state 0x0, keycode 204 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001, root 0x8d, subw 0x0, time 3056554, (-600,696), root:(492,745), state 0x0, keycode 204 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
Take a note of the keycode (204 in this example). What I did next was to look up this keycode in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86, which returned the following entry:
xfree86: <K6C> = 204; // <I4C>
Finally, I added this entry into the symbols file for my keyboard. For a UK Macintosh keyboard, the file is:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh
Within the section xkb_symbols "basic", add the following:
key <K6C> { [ XF86Eject ] };
Repeat the process for all other keys.
I also added in the following line to this section:
include "srvr_ctrl(xfree86)"
This is necessary in order to be able to switch to a virtual console from X.
There are a couple of gotchas:
1. <KPEQ> does not match the UK Macintosh keypad equals sign. I had to use <K59>. Similarly, the ~` key at the bottom left was matched against <LSGT>.
2. I still cannot select a thread in thunderbird with shift-control-a, even under the failsafe session.
3. Under GNOME, I cannot assign a shortcut key to "Log Out". That is to say, I can make the assignment using the "Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts" dialog, but when I try to use the key nothing happens. Assigning the same key to a different shortcut works though. Guess I'll just have to stick with control-alt-delete.
Regards,
Malcolm.
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