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Date:      Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:31:24 +0100
From:      "Aleksandar Simic'" <alex@frustum.clara.co.uk>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru>
Subject:   Re: X key bindings
Message-ID:  <20010405173124.B14298@frustum.clara.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104052020020.29668-100000@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru>; from kopts@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 08:22:54PM %2B0400
References:  <20010405171920.A14298@frustum.clara.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104052020020.29668-100000@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru>

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On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 08:22:54PM +0400, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: 

> 
> > > I would like to use Alt_R as a modifier with olvwm (on x86 keyboard). But
> > > 'man olvwmrc' says that it uses only the following keys as "modifiers:  
> > > Shift, Control, Alt, Meta, Hyper, Super, Shift Lock, or Caps Lock".
> > > 
> > > May I map Hyper or Super to Alt_R somehow?
> > 
> > Yes, you certainly can. Try using xmodmap(1), or if you don't find the
> > command line appealing you can try xkeycaps from ports:
> > /usr/ports/x11/xkeycaps/
> 
> I have already tried it, but the problem is that Hyper/Super keysyms are
> absent in the map:
> 
> >xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_R = Hyper"
> xmodmap:  commandline:0:  bad keysym target keysym 'Alt_R', no
> corresponding keycodes
> xmodmap:  1 error encountered, aborting.
> 
> How can I introduce these keysyms?

Try this:

	$ cd
	$ xmodmap -pke > .xmodmap
	$ emacs .xmodmap &

and then edit the values that you want.

Good luck,

--Alex



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