keybinding in xfwm4 and windows keys

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Peter Humphrey wrote:

>Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>Peter Humphrey wrote:
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>>>Which bit does it flip?
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>>Not sure what you mean.
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>Looks like I'm betraying my '70s training here. CTRL and SHIFT were 
>modifiers at the hardware level which flipped bits 7 and 8 (do I mean 6 & 
>7? It's a long time ago) as the key code was sent to the CPU. It's hard to 
>know where ALT and Windows fit into this scheme.
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Yes, I imagine things are a bit different - the so-called 'modifier' 
keys probably behave identically to non-modifier keys, at least on the 
hardware level.  Which implies....

>>>And how does Windows manage to make it operate alone?
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>>I don't know, I'm no Windows programmer ^_~.  Perhaps Windows doesn't
>>make such a strong distinction between modifier and "normal" keys.
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>I wonder whether the distinction is more conceptual than physical. If you 
>put a hardware device on the keyboard cable you'll find a code generated 
>when the Windows key is pressed, I'm pretty sure. That makes it a real key 
>in my book.
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As someone else mentioned, I suppose it's possible to use xmodmap to 
turn the scan code that the windows key sends (or presumably even shift 
or ctrl?) into a non-modifier key, and use it as you want.  Give it a 
try and see what happens.

    -b