On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Dale Snell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:31:13 -0700 (PDT) > Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Ken Stephens wrote: >> >> > showkey >> >> Ken, >> >> Wasn't sure if that showed the key name as used in .Xmodmap or the >> scan code for the key. Didn't look at the man page. > > showkey(1) [and its cousins loadkeys(1) and dumpkeys(1)] are for > use from a Linux VT, not from X. See also keymaps(5). > > Use xev(1) to get the key names that X uses. They aren't the same > as the ones the VTs use. Also for X, see xmodmap(1) and > setxkbmap(1). > > (And I swear they made the X Window System documentation as > obscure as possible. *grrr*) > > Hope this helps. > > --Dale
This does help. Making progress. I used xmodmap -e "keycode 94 = Shift_L" which appeared to work for the left key of interest. xmodmap -e "keycode 51 = Shift_R" did not appear to work. The key no longer generates any characters, but does not perform the shift operation. I somehow thought the left keycode was 95; found that did not change the key of interest, then found it was 94. Perhaps messing with 95 screwed up work with the right key. I will restart X and repeat the xmodmap -e "keycode 51 = Shift_R" command to see if it then works. But I still have the question: Where do I put these commands so that they get executed whenever I start up? I have heard various answers to this general question, so am confused (normal linux state for me). Thanks for the help. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
