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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How bind "Super" key *all by itself* to a function?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:25:08 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8W+m2GSnDCM_fBku-PYMhg7YdPzUc3btaRLpPdTS=OP6g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50ee152f-7dd7-4325-8b38-728e3e971338@googlegroups.com>

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 12:46:21 PM UTC+5:30, Yuri Khan wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Chris Seberino  wrote:
>>
>> > I'm on a Linux machine and would like to bind
>> > the "Super" key all by itself to a function of my choosing.
>>
>> You are probably not going to achieve that while keeping it as the
>> Super key or any modifier key for that matter.
>>
>> However, you can use XKB (in X) and/or loadkeys (in tty) to map the
>> Windows key to produce a different keycode such as F13, and then bind
>> that to any function you like.
>
> Do you have a simple howto on that? [XKB]
> With xmodmap it was at least conceivable
> Xkb is too much of a dragon
>
> eg Say I have a broken ~ key and I want to make F12 generate ~



  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-19  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-19  6:57 How bind "Super" key *all by itself* to a function? Chris Seberino
2015-01-19  7:16 ` Yuri Khan
     [not found] ` <mailman.18124.1421651779.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-01-19  7:35   ` Rusi
2015-01-19  8:25     ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2015-01-19  9:08     ` Yuri Khan
     [not found]     ` <mailman.18131.1421658484.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-01-19 13:54       ` Rusi
2015-01-19 14:33       ` Rusi
2015-01-19 15:32         ` Yuri Khan

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