Re: Complicated escape (or two escapes) or some other answer.

Shawn Betts <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ratpoison.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
>   Mod2 + XF86MonBrightnessUp

look at the output from xmodmap to see what modifier is listed on
Mod2. It's maybe Alt. If it is, in ratpoison:

definekey top A-XF86MonBrightnessUp readkey root

>  Worse still, when I plug in an external keyboard which lacks the
> innovative XF86MonBrightnessUp key, I'd like plain old F5 to be the
> escape key.

definekey top F5 readkey root

-Shawn
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