[NCLUG] xmodmap misbehavior

John Gilmore jgilmore at glycou.com
Tue Nov 13 11:00:10 MST 2007


Additional info:

It's something to do with khotkeys. If I create a Keyboard 
shortcut->command/URL in khotkeys, it screws up the key, causing unshifted L 
key to do nothing.

A bug in khotkeys?

On Tuesday 13 November 2007 10:35:43 John Gilmore wrote:
> Here are two commands.
>
> herb~/:)$xmodmap -e 'keycode 46 = l L XF86ScreenSaver'
> herb~/:)$xmodmap -e 'keycode 46 = l L'
>
> After the first one, Lowercase L no longer types. Except when I tried it
> just now and it worked as expected (I.E. the L key makes l, L or
> XF86ScreenSaver depending on the state of the Shift and Meta keys)
>
> It seems to do this intermitently, whenever I try to assign an extended
> keysym to a keycode. The extended ASCII stuff isn't a problem (Ntilde
> works) but any of the extended stuff (ISO_Lock, select, whatever) fails.
>
> Any clue what is going on? I really hate inconsistent behavior from my
> computer. When I tell it to do something, it should do it, dang it!
>
> I'm trying to make a single-key shortcut to activating the screensaver
> using KHotkeys and xscreensaver.
>
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