Re: [RP] non-working key

[Shawn Betts]

Joe Corneli <address@hidden> writes:

>    > --with-x.  However it does work with xev.  This seems rather strange
>    > to me.  The key does work (sends keysym for six to the computer)
>    > outside of X.
> 
>    Possibly six is defined as a modifier key?
> 
> 
> Not in the least.  The only reference to it in the problematic
> xmodmap file was 
> 
>  keycode 30 = 6 asciicircum
> 
> (or, according to the output of xmodmap -pk)
> 
>      30              0x0036 (6)    0x005e (asciicircum)       

Hi Joe,

This seems to be a flaw in ratpoison's key grabbing and maybe X11's
keysym->keycode mapping. Say you try this:

definekey top at echo foo

When ratpoison converts the at keysym into a keycode it gets turned
into the same keycode that 2 gets turned into, but X doesn't tell
ratpoison that you have to press Shift to get the keysym back.
ratpoison grabs the 2 key but checks to see if the @ key was
pressed. And so 'foo' never gets displayed.

The short-term answer and maybe the only way is to add another
modifier: Sh. So the above command would turn into:

definekey top Sh-2 echo foo

If anyone knows some X11 black magic to convert the keysym at to Shift +
keycode I'd love to know!

The man pages are pretty dry.

On a side note, you can now run:

definekey top T echo foo

I use XConvertCase to check whether Shift needs to be added, but that
doesn't work for keys not subject to case conversion.

-Shawn