Re: lost my 'menu' key

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 17:58:02 +0000, Tyler Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got my menu key bound to the root menu in fluxbox:
> 
> from ~/.fluxbox/keys:
> None Menu :RootMenu
> 
> Until recently this worked just fine. However, it has now stopped
> working. I checked with xev, and now the menu key comes up as:
> 
> KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
>     root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 680134456, (-378,390), root:(269,412),
>     state 0x0, keycode 227 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
>     XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
>     XFilterEvent returns: False
> 
> KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
>     root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 680134519, (-378,390), root:(269,412),
>     state 0x0, keycode 227 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
>     XFilterEvent returns: False
> 
> I take this to mean that something has changed in my X set up, and the
> menu key is no longer properly mapped to anything. How would I go
> about fixing this?

This might get the "Menu" keysymbol back to key 227:

xmodmap -e 'keycode 227 = Menu'

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