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Re: how to determine X window identifier



On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 01:02:20PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> LONG-TERM GOAL:
> 
> Running X on an i386 system with the US PC-104 keyboard and "Dvorak
> classic" key mapping, I would like to change the behaviour of the
> Ctrl, Alt, and Win keys, and perhaps also the Menu key when running
> XEmacs-gnome-nomule.
> 
> I wish the following behaviours:
> 
>     -> left-hand Ctrl key produces Control_L
> 
>     -> right-hand Ctrl key produces Control_R or Control_L
> 
>     -> left-hand Alt key produces Alt_L
> 
>     -> right-hand Alt key produces Alt_R or Alt_L
> 
>     -> left-hand Win key produces Super_L
> 
>     -> right-hand Win key produces Super_R or Super_L
> 
>     -> Menu key produces Alt_R or Alt_L
> 
> In other words, on the bottom row of the keyboard, I wish both Ctrl
> keys to produce Ctrl, and the remainder of the keys (with exception of
> the space bar) to produce Alt. 
> 
> I think that I have no need for Level3_Shift. If changing the Menu key
> is a problem, the Menu key may be left as it is.
> 
> IMMEDIATE NEED:
> 
> For diagnostics, I would like to use "xev" to view the keycodes, but I
> do not know how to determine the X window identifier of the XEmacs
> window.
You may want to try the xkeycaps utility.
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