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  • Would like to re-assign left widows key as left alt key

    From sellputcall@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 5 13:26:28 2017
    OS: Fedora release 26 (Twenty Six)


    My laptop's alt key doesnt work anymore.
    I would like to set the left Windows key as the left Alt key, i.e. have the windows key transmit the left Alt key sequence.
    I tried using xmodmap but getting a lot of errors.


    1) Tried the following and upon loading with xmodmap, gives me errors.
    I think the left Windows key is Mod4

    clear Alt
    clear Mod4
    add Mod4 = Alt_L Alt_R


    error:
    xmodmap: /home/sunil/.Xmodmap:1: bad clear modifier input line




    2) Even the following examples i was trying to test with give errors:
    xmodmap −e "keysym BackSpace = Delete"
    xmodmap: unable to open file '−e' for reading



    3) xev : not sure if xev can capture the windows key scan codes!!!


    4) showkey also errors out. Probably because of gnome ? and that this is not an xterm ? rather its a gnome terminal ??

    showkey --keycodes
    Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console


    Can someone please tell me what i'm doing wrong ? and how to do this correctly??


    tia,


    Sunil

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to sellputcall@gmail.com on Mon Nov 6 04:00:49 2017
    On 05/11/17 21:26, sellputcall@gmail.com wrote:
    clear Alt
    clear Mod4
    add Mod4 = Alt_L Alt_R


    error:
    xmodmap:/home/sunil/.Xmodmap:1: bad clear modifier input line

    clear Alt_L ???


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