Thank you all for the suggestions!  Apologies for the late response, got
a little busy with life and forgot about this "project".  I am not
familiar with xkbcomp, but that sounds like a promising approach (and
an interesting program to add to the tool belt).  I'll check it out.

Thanks again!
Alex

On 24/04/12 04:01PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 11:35:46PM +0200, 'Kai Stian Olstad' via qtile-dev 
> wrote:
> > On 12.04.2024 22:56, Alex Becker wrote:
> > > Here's what I have in my config.  I have tried both with and without
> > > shell=True, but it does not seem to want to write the output of xdotool
> > > to
> > > whatever window I have highlighted.  Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > Key(["control", "shift"], "j", lazy.spawn("xdotool key 4")),
> > 
> > xdotool is sending key 4 while you still have control, shift and j pressed.
> > If you use "xdotool sleep 0.2 key 4" it will work if you let go of control,
> > shift and j before 0.2 second have elapsed.
> > But this is not practical solution if you are going to press several num pad
> > key consecutive.
> 
> Oh, duh. Great point. Another option would be to compile your own
> layout via xkbcomp. I have an example where I remap capslock here:
> 
> https://github.com/qtile/qtile-examples/blob/master/tych0/xkb/symbols/tycho
> 
> you could maybe do a similar hack and load it in your ~/.xsession like
> I do.
> 
> Tycho
> 
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