Enabling super (windows) key?

Frank Wissmann frank.wissmann41 at web.de
Tue Feb 26 17:29:43 CET 2008


Thomas Jefferson wrote:
> */"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu>/* wrote:
> 
>     What does xmodmap say about your modifier map? If Super_L/Super_R
>     aren't in there, they won't work as modifiers.
> 
>     - brian
> 
> Yeah, they're not in there. How do i establish them for Xfce? I did
> 
> xmodmap -e "add mod3 = Super_L"
> 
> but that does the same thing as
> 
> setxkbmap -model 'pc105' -layout 'us' -option 'altwin:super_win'
> 
> */Frank Wissmann <frank.wissmann41 at web.de>/* wrote:
> 
>     It would be nice to know what OS and what distribution of it you have.
>     For example, I have FreeBSD 7.0 and when using "startx" I put the
>     following in my ~.xinitrc:
> 
>     #!/bin/sh
>     xmodmap -e "keycode 115 = Mode_switch"
>     xmodmap -e "keycode 116 = Mode_switch"
>     xmodmap -e "keycode 26 = e E Eurosign"
>     xmodmap -e "keycode 27 = r R registered"
>     xmodmap -e "keycode 29 = y Y yen"
>     xmodmap -e "keycode 30 = u U udiaeresis Udiaeresis"
>     xmodmap -e "keycode 32 = o O odiaeresis Odiaeresis"
>     xmodmap -e "keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis"
>     xmodmap -e "keycode 39 = s S ssharp"
>     xmodmap -e "keycode 46 = l L sterling"
>     xmodmap -e "keycode 54 = c C cent copyright"
>     exec startxfce4
> 
>     If starting X with a login-screen Iput the above lines in ~.xsession.
> 
>     HTH
> 
>     Greetings
> 
>     Frank
> 
> I'm using Xubuntu 7.10. And is it possible to enable it system wide?

I am not so much into (X)Ubuntu, I'm sorry to say. Hopefully you can get 
this answer out of an Ubuntu-Forum or -Wiki.

Frank



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