Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

On 23/04/2025 20:24, Van Snyder wrote:
> xev said "pause" is 127, so I used xmodmap to set 127 to Menu:
>
> xmodmap -e "keycode 127 = Menu"
>
> xev than said the "pause" key is "Menu." But it didn't raise the KDE 
> menu the way the Window key does, even though xev also says the "Window" 
> key is "Menu"
>
> I also put
>
> xmodmap -e "keycode 127 = Menu"
>
> into .xsession, made it executable, linked it to .Xsession, and put
>
> keycode 127 = Menu
>
> into ~/.Xmodmap
>
> and when I rebooted, xev said "Pause" is "Menu" but it doesn't start the 
> KDE menu.
>
> Maybe KDE subverts X11 settings.

xev told me that the "Windows" key on my keyboard (which opens the KDE 
menu) is "Super_L". "Menu" probably is another key that is meant to open 
the context menu (same as right clicking generally).


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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