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Re: cygwin and xwin and super and hyper
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: david at adboyd dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:55:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: cygwin and xwin and super and hyper
- References: <m9hi61x9bxl5 dot fsf at W0144758 dot usac dot mmm dot com>
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- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
On 19/06/2013 22:27, J. David Boyd wrote:
> I can get my capslock key to be super with the command line 'setxkbmap -option
> caps:super', but I can't get 'setxkbmap -option altwin:hyper_win' to do
> anything.
>
> Running 'setxkbmap -print' shows both options as being set, but the win keys
> still act as the win key.
>
> Is there something else I need to do so windows lets go of these keys?
Yes.
Again, let me refer you to [1]. The operative sentence is:
> (Note that mapping the Windows keys to hyper also requires the -keyhook
> option, so that the X server sees those keys before the Windows shell)
One thing I failed to mention there is that without any keymap options the
keymap should give you super on the windows keys, but you will still need
-keyhook X server option to enable the X server to see the key.
[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-03/msg00427.html
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Jon TURNEY
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