xmodmap ( was:: Disabling nxml-mode)

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

rusi wrote:
> No idea if this works... Still
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LaptopSpecialKeys
> 
> [Id be interested to know if it does]

Thanks for the link. It's a little over my head but I'll give it a try.

For reference here is my question to Ubuntu forum:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/156589

My current much simpler problem is shown in this commented .xmodmaprc
file (same as user home directory version of .Xmodmap in other distros):


    clear Shift
    clear Lock
    clear Control
    clear Mod1
    clear Mod2
    clear Mod3
!   clear Mod4
!   clear Mod5

    add    Shift   = Shift_L    Shift_R
    add    Control = Control_L    Control_R
    add    Mod1    = Mode_switch
    add    Mod2    = Meta_L        Meta_R
  ! add    Mod4    = Hyper_L    Hyper_R  give up on super and hyper
  ! add    Mod5    = Super_L    Super_R  Fn key and windows last and  !
! next  keys produce x event on key release and can't be combined with
! alpha keys, only f1 thru f20 or so


! keycode 66 = Hyper_L  ;; Caps lock. keycode 151 Fn key was an attempt
 ! to assign Super_L to Fn key
  keycode 66 = backslash bar
! keycode 37 = Super_L
keycode 115 = Meta_L
keycode 64 = Control_L
keycode 113 = Control_R
keycode 116 = Meta_R
! keycode 117 = Super_R   ;; windows back
! keycode 109 = Hyper_R   ;; windows ahead (these two keys straddle the
! up arrow on lower right
keycode 51 = Caps_Lock   ;; on backslash bar key (under backspace on
! dvorak layout

With this .xmodmaprc the Ctl and Alt (Meta) keys are where I want them
and caps lock works as backslash bar, but backslash bar doesn't work as
Caps_Lock. Not a big deal but why waste the key, and, more important,
why not understand what's going on?

Ed