On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 10:31 PM, jenia.ivlev wrote:

I'm wondering if xmonad remapped the menu to become the mod key?

xmonad does no key remapping. You are right. It was my own xmonad.hs config file that caused the

Brandon Allbery writes: problem. I was certain that I verified that but apperently not.

Have you by any chance been experimenting with Xkb, either directly (setxkbmap) or indirectly (various desktop manager keyboard control panels, xorg.conf Xkb* configuration entries, etc.)? I seem to recall someone suggesting some setxkbmap entries to you earlier.

I tried it but it turned out that it doesn't have the exact key mapping I need. remove Control = Control_R keysym Menu = Control_R keysym Control_R = Super_L add Control = Control_R That is, switch the Menu and Right-Control and also make the Menu key(just to avoid confusion, I want to repeat that on the physical keybaord, its written ctrl on it cause we switched them around) into the Super key (mod key in xmonad).

This will interact with xmodmap, and Xkb will take precedence --- and xmodmap can't always understand Xkb settings.

Thanks very much for your help. Happy upcoming New Year!!!