Hello everyone
I'm on FreeBSD 12.1 and I've had this problem in 11.4 as well. My laptop's
keyboard has a few broken keys so I have a USB keyboard attached to it. During
installation I chose the standard US layout and all the regular keys on the USB
keyboard work fine and xev recognizes them except for multimedia keys (vol
up/down, mute). And I notice a strange behavior with x11/sxhkd: I tried to bind
the PrintScreen key to a command so I looked at its value in xev ("Print") but
when I put this keycode in my sxhkdrc, the PrintScreen key doesn't do anything,
instead I get that command from the "UP" arrow key. I did see a difference in
how xev reports the keycodes for regular alphabetical keys vs keys like
PrintScreen, Scroll Lock, etc. For example, if I press the "W" key, I get
something like this:
Code:
KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2600002,
root 0x47f, subw 0x0, time 5756771, (189,-199), root:(907,208),
state 0x0, keycode 25 (keysym 0x77, w), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (77) "w"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (77) "w"
XFilterEvent returns: False
but with PrintScreen:
Code:
KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2600002,
root 0x47f, subw 0x0, time 5758611, (189,-199), root:(907,208),
state 0x0, keycode 107 (keysym 0xff61, Print), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
Another weird thing is when I do xmodmap -pke, it shows me 255! keycodes and I
think this is the number of keycodes for both laptop and external keyboard keys
because I see keys that are exclusive to each keyboard which by the way include
the multimedia keys from USB keyboard, so I don't know why xev doesn't show
anything when I press them. I also see keys that don't exist on any of my
keyboards ("Hiragana_Katakana", "Muhenkan", etc).
I don't plan on using my laptop's keyboard, so is there a way to remove all the
keymappings and install a new one "only" for the external keyboard? (in case
that's the easier route)
here's the complete output of xmodmap -pk: https://ghostbin.com/paste/JrMCA
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