OK, in the end, I had no trouble with Mod4 at all. It's just that every binding I had trouble with were using Mod4!
My issue was related to PATH to properly populated before i3 is fired, and this is because I was giving a try to xdm at the same time. For a reason I do not fully understand yet, xdm does not make use of /etc/profile (and thus ignores /etc/profile.d/*.sh) nor user-defined PATH (but maybe this is a collateral effect of /etc/profile.d/*.sh being ignored). In the end, I switched back to my previous DM, that is kdm-trinity. It's a long PATH to the zenity, but it worth it. A lot. Thanks to everybody here! Nicolas On 17/06/2015 20:05, Nicolas Bercher wrote:
Hi, I have troubles using Mod4+<any>. Here is my configuration sample: bindsym Mod4+Up exec alsa-volume-increase bindsym Mod4+Down exec alsa-volume-decrease bindsym Mod4+m exec alsa-volume-toggle-mute where alsa-volume-* are bash script that do work very well from the shell. I've checked (and fixed) under xmodmap the association of Mod4 to Super_L (and Super_R is fine also): $ xmodmap -pm xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lock Caps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x69) mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Meta_L (0xcd) mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 mod4 Super_L (0x85), Super_R (0x86), Super_L (0xce) mod5 ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c), Mode_switch (0xcb) And xev says me (for a press-release sequence on "Win Left"): KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x3c00001, root 0xcb, subw 0x0, time 29561418, (238,-7), root:(1202,721), state 0x0, keycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x3c00001, root 0xcb, subw 0x0, time 29562442, (238,-7), root:(1202,721), state 0x40, keycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False Under xev, is it normal that I get two different key codes for Super_L, namely 0x85 and 0xce? Do any one knows what's wrong? Thanks a lot, Nicolas
