Re: lost my 'menu' key

[Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

On 2008-02-17, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> 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'
>

Thanks!

I added the following to my ~/.xmodmap, which is called from
.Xsession:

  keycode 227 = Menu

Restarting X, I now get the following from xev for the menu key:

KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
    root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 686578088, (171,-9), root:(818,13),
    state 0x0, keycode 227 (keysym 0xff67, Menu), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 117
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
    root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 686578152, (171,-9), root:(818,13),
    state 0x0, keycode 227 (keysym 0xff67, Menu), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 117
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Emacs now picks up the menu key, C-h k <menu> produces the following:

<menu> runs the command execute-extended-command
  which is an interactive built-in function in `C source code'.
It is bound to <execute>, <menu>, M-x.

However, fluxbox stills ignores it. Any other suggestions?

Cheers,

Tyler