How do i find the keycode .......

[loft306]

How do i find the keycode for a spacific keyboard key & or the whole KB.
i ask because i need to give life to the R 'ctrl' and 'alt' on a dvorak KB

[sarumont]

Open up an xterm and type the command 'xev'. This will monitor all your inputs and tell you everything about them. Just keep an eye on the terminal when you hit the buttons you want to check and you will see the keycode.

[scientica]

How can I assign a funcion/command for a key? (like the "windows button" and the "popup menu button")?

[loft306]

you need to edit the apropriate keyboard map archive located->

file&#58;/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/ <filename>

and u can find out which one u need to edit from

file:/etc/X11/Xf86config

• Section "InputDevice"
  Driver "keyboard"
  Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
  Option "MapName" "Generic keyboard [ pc101 ]"
  Option "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option "XkbLayout" "dvorak"
  Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
  Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
  EndSection

[sarumont]

scientia: You can also use xmodmap or xbindkeys.

[scientica]

Thanks sarumont! (it took me a while to get it working thougt, but now it's 'perfect' -- it's customization than in windows , now one of my "windows keys" opens GNU emcas )

[sarumont]

Just foi, what prog did you use to bind them?

And a side note: I've seen keyboards with a little penguin on the "windows keys" instead of a windows symbol. And they were all hooked up to puters running Windows at a LAN party.

[scientica]

Just foi, what prog did you use to bind them?

And a side note: I've seen keyboards with a little penguin on the "windows keys" instead of a windows symbol. And they were all hooked up to puters running Windows at a LAN party.

I've only seen pics of the "Tux Key"

I use xmodmap, after some xev'ing I also bound a few other keys, I made a fix_keys bash script:

#!/bin/bash
# 115 = left winkey, 116 = right winkey
xmodmap -e 'keycode 115 = Super_L'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 116 = Super_R'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 0x75 = Menu'
# www
xmodmap -e 'keycode 178 = XF86HomePage'
# e-mail
xmodmap -e 'keycode 236 = XF86Mail'
# Stop
xmodmap -e 'keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop'
# Play/Pause
xmodmap -e 'keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay'
# Previous
xmodmap -e 'keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev'
# Next
xmodmap -e 'keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext'
# Mute
xmodmap -e 'keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute'
# Vol -
xmodmap -e 'keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume'
# Vol +
xmodmap -e 'keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume'
# power = 222, Sleep = 223, Wake up = 227
xmodmap -e 'keycode 227 = XF86WakeUp'

(I've also made a ~/.Xmodmap, but it's untested -- haven't restarted X)

keycode 0x73 = Super_L
keycode 0x74 = Super_R
keycode 0x75 = Menu
keycode 178 = XF86HomePage
keycode 236 = XF86Mail
keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay
keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext
keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute
keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
keycode 227 = XF86WakeUp

then I used the IceWM's 'keys' config file to bind it, I first assigned F13,F14 to the WinKeys and added "actions" for them.
Untill I made some diging in the IceWM CVS (-headace-), and found out that they use Super_L and Super_R for the windows keys -- there is a config option that enables IceWM to use Super_L (Win_L) as shortcu to the IceWM menu, Super_R (Win_R) opens the window list. And menu does the same as right clicking (in some apps, like X-Chat , alas not in MFB).

Then I had to fight with the keyboard layout (changed from pc102 to pc109 (pc104, or was it pc105 -- didn't work, some keys didn't listen then)).

[The unL33T]

Can anyone tell my how I can get the windows key to open the KDE menu? I found a place for configuring keyboard shortcuts but it will only let me use the Windows key + something else (ie Win+1 or Win+F1 or something like that). Also, I can't get xev to read my volume control buttons. I use them by pressing Fn+End,Pg Up, or Pg Dn. This is on a Dell notebook. I even changed my keyboard layout to Dell Inspiron (I don't know if they're the same but should be similar).