From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to set keybinding in gnome? Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 07:57:11 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <8d1e769a-7f74-43af-a32a-80a7eb889342@l2g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <15555d3a-273b-4c7e-8661-a23caa5d7c19@d19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332963453 7005 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2012 19:37:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:37:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 28 21:37:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SCygV-0006kL-BO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:37:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59555 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCygU-0006F6-Ox for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:37:30 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q14g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1306767431 14956 127.0.0.1 (30 May 2011 14:57:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 14:57:11 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q14g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:187155 comp.emacs:101630 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84128 Archived-At: On May 30, 7:10=A0am, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > * by default, the Menu key is execute-extended-command. Is that > > default from GNU Emacs compiled for GNU/Linux, or some distro > > downstream did that? > > IIRC this has been the default "for ever". > > > * i wondered bout how to set Win key and Menu key to one of Hyper or > > Super, on linux. Is this completely external to emacs? > > Yes. > > >> If you want to go further, you can play around with xmodmap or read > >> about XKB, or ask in an X11 or Gnome newsgroup/forum/bugtracker. > > so i guess the gnome gui for key setting does ultimately rely on > > xmodmap? Ok, i'll look for answer in those communities. > > No, it relies on XKB, IIUC. =A0It seems that xmodmap is kind of deprecate= d > nowadays, tho I don't fully understand ho XKB and xmodmap are related. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Stefan oh i see. i've been greatly out of the loop. XKB is great info, never heard of before, but now a look at wikipedia seems i'll be quite busy for days... probably months. Thanks! Xah