Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 05:10:53 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Happy Hacking keyboard, Emacs, and meta Message-ID: <4349DBBD.3010905@datacomm.ch> In-Reply-To: <200510091641.48542.kirk@strauser.com> References: <200510091641.48542.kirk@strauser.com>
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Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I have an older PS2 Happy Hacking Lite Keyboard (love it!), but I'm getting
> reacquainted with Emacs and one aspect of the keyboard is driving me nuts: I
> can't seem to get the diamond keys (like "Windows keys") to send only Meta to
> Emacs.
>
> I use KDE on FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5 and have it set to run "setxkbmap -option
> -option altwin:meta_win" at login. If I run "xev" and press those keys, I
> see events like:
>
> [...]
>
> However, if I run Emacs and type C-h k (describe-key) and then M-a, for
> example, I get the error message "H-M-s-a is undefined" as though the
> keyboard is sending Hyper-Meta-shift(?)-a instead.
This looks like an issue similar to one I've run into once.
You'll need to customize your keyboard layout files, specifically,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc. Try this patch:
-----PATCH START-----
--- pc.orig Thu Aug 18 20:18:20 2005
+++ pc Sat Aug 27 13:03:06 2005
@@ -180,11 +180,12 @@
key <META> { [ NoSymbol, Meta_L ] };
modifier_map Mod1 { <META> };
- key <SUPR> { [ NoSymbol, Super_L ] };
- modifier_map Mod4 { <SUPR> };
+ //key <SUPR> { [ NoSymbol, Super_L ] };
+ //modifier_map Mod4 { <SUPR> };
+ modifier_map Mod4 { <LWIN>, <RWIN> };
- key <HYPR> { [ NoSymbol, Hyper_L ] };
- modifier_map Mod4 { <HYPR> };
+ //key <HYPR> { [ NoSymbol, Hyper_L ] };
+ //modifier_map Mod4 { <HYPR> };
};
// definition for the PC-AT type 101 key keyboard
-----PATCH END-----
If that doesn't work, start playing around with the keyboard definition
files. The system's not too hard to understand: numeric keycodes are
assigned symbols in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keycodes, and those symbols
are then assigned Keysyms in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Benjamin
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