Re: definekey only grabs one key

2009/10/7 Torbjörn Söderstedt <[email protected]>:
> Using definekey for the top keymap, I tried to assign a command to "minus". It
> didn't work, and after some investigation I found that I have two minus keys on
> my keyboard:
>
> $ xmodmap -pk | grep minus
>     20       0x002d (minus)    0x005f (underscore)     0x002d (minus)  0x005f (underscore)     0x0aaa (endash) 0x0aa9 (emdash)
>     94       0x002d (minus)    0x005f (underscore)     0x002d (minus)  0x005f (underscore)     0x0aaa (endash) 0x0aa9 (emdash)
>    126       0x00b1 (plusminus)       0x0000 (NoSymbol)       0x00b1 (plusminus)               0x0000 (NoSymbol)      0x00b1 (plusminus)
>
> After remapping the key to the scancode with the lower value, it works as
> expected. Is this a limitation in ratpoison, or some peculiarity of X11?

This is a limitation of ratpoison. The problem is it only gets one
keycode back when it converts a keysym to a keycode. The fix is to
find a way to return all keycodes for a keysym. ratpoison uses the
function XKeysymToKeycode and I can't find a function that returns all
the keycodes so one would probably need to roll one's own.

-Shawn