Re: [RP] ratpoison configuration howto updated

[Jonathan Walther]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:18:34PM +1100, Trent Buck wrote:
> Because conventionally keyboards send one of those two numbers to mean
> that key.  If both are bound by default, then everybody's keyboard
> works out-of-the-box.
>
> It's also possible that your keyboard is sending another keycode
> entirely, which is not mapped to Print.

No, it is definitely keycode 111.

> Ratpoison says to the X server "Tell me whenever the keysym Foo is
> pressed".  Without additional code RP can't tell what keycode it was.
>
> Two keys should only be mapped to the same keysym if you want them to
> behave identically.  Note that there are separate keysyms for left- and
> right-modifier keys, and for the numbers on the numeric keypad.

Once I used xmodmap to make keycode 92 be blank, leaving only keycode
111 bound to Print/Sys_Req, my "definekey top Print" suddenly worked.
So if this isn't a problem with ratpoison, it seems like a deeper X bug.

Any ideas?

Jonathan

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