Re: Alt key doesn't work

[sikerbela]

If it changes console with Alt then it is getting the keypress.
You might try out getting its keycode with xev and mapping it to proper
Alt with xmodmap.

On 2016-01-09 03:54, Teng Zhang wrote:

hi,
the Alt key doesn't work on my machine in most cases except for
changing console(Crtl+Alt+F_number). So, what key i can use to replace 
Alt.

How do I ignore all keystrokes with a particular keycode?

[sikerbela]

Hello beoble, it is my first mail to this mailing list.

I just installed OpenBSD 5.8 and it is working nicely with one problem,
I can't hold keys down. It goes for a second and then gets interrupted-
apparently by another keypress.

I fired up xev to see what is happening and it gave this output, looks
like there is a keystroke sent every second, with a keycode of 119.

KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x241,
root 0x9d, subw 0x0, time 19928102, (-360,542), root:(444,560),
state 0x0, keycode 119 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

If it was on Linux, I would just map it to "void" using
# setkeycodes 0x77 255
and not care about it again. I googled and
asked on U stackexchange for an equivalent of this and found 
wsconsctl,

and tried out
# wsconsctl keyboard.map+="keycode 119=voidSymbol"
and
# wsconsctl keyboard.map+="keycode 119=a"

to see if it does anything after all, but no love. I am quite lost since
even if I knew how to map it, I don't know where to map it in order to 
make

it ignored after all.

Not sure if it will help, but here is the output of wsconsctl 
keyboard.map:


keyboard.map=
keycode 119 = a A

so I know it is setting the variable.

There is no relevant output in xconsole or dmesg.

Thanks in advance,
Sikerb Ela