[SOLVED] How to identify the list of all "assigned functions" of keycodes

ajaygarg · 02-26-2012, 10:22 PM

Hi all.

I will be grateful, if I could let be known as to how to display the assigned functions of all keycodes (on Fedora 14).

I require this, as I am debugging an issue, wherein a keycode that has been assigned as a capslock, is working on Fedora 11, but not on Fedora 14.

For brevity, here is the content of "~/xmodmap.conf" ::

Code:

keycode 133 = Caps_Lock
add Lock = Caps_Lock

Looking forward to a reply.

Regards,
Ajay

ajaygarg · 02-27-2012, 03:41 AM

Specifically, I get the message

Code:

X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  118 (X_SetModifierMapping)
  Value in failed request:  0x17
  Serial number of failed request:  12
  Current serial number in output stream:  12

when I run the command on Fedora 14 (it works fine on Fedora 11, though).

Code:

xmodmap -e 'add Lock = Caps_Lock'

I have tried the solutions at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=83946, but nothing seems to work.

Would any Fedora guys mind telling what might be the issue of this regression? I will be grateful :-)

Regards,
Ajay

DavidMcCann · 02-27-2012, 11:58 AM

I don't think you're going to find many users of Fedora 14 still around! That's out of date and unsupported.

Personally, I've always avoided xmodmap and modified the keyboard driver directly (I've got the caps-lock where the pause used to be, replaced by level 3 shift). In /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev you've got
<CAPS> = 66;
<LWIN> = 133;
and so on. Alter those to
<CAPS> = 133;
and whatever you want 66 to do, and that does it. Don't have two numbers assigned to the same code: that can cause trouble.

ajaygarg · 02-28-2012, 01:51 AM

@DavidMcCann

Thanks Champ. It worked !!

To top it, it also answers the thread-question perfectly :-)

Thanks and Regards,
Ajay