Re: [xmonad] xmonad and remapping keys with xmodmap

* On Fri Jan 18 15:45:26 +0100 2013, wagnerdm wrote:

Quoting Ico :

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- I remap the numpad arrows to send 'Left' instead of KP_Left':

xmodmap -e "keycode 83 = Left Left" ...

- Xmonad now works with the keypad left arrow key, but the normal arrow key (that was not remapped) is no longer picked up by xmonad. It works for all other apps I tested, though. xev shows the normal key symbols when pressing the keys.

Yeah, that's a bit annoying. The culprit is that xmonad asks X to convert keysyms into keycodes, then binds keycodes instead of keysyms.

Yes, that makes perfect sense.

This is subtly a bug because many keycodes may map to the same keysym, in which case X will choose one arbitrarily to return from the conversion.

That's a bit of a funny way of doing things, but explains just fine what I'm seeing here.

You might be interested in

http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=273

Thank you, I'll check that out. Ico -- :wq ^X^Cy^K^X^C^C^C^C