Re: lost my 'menu' key

On 2008-02-17, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 17:58:02 +0000, Tyler Smith wrote:
Hi,

I've got my menu key bound to the root menu in fluxbox:

from ~/.fluxbox/keys:
None Menu :RootMenu

Until recently this worked just fine. However, it has now stopped
working. I checked with xev, and now the menu key comes up as:

KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 680134456, (-378,390), root:(269,412),
state 0x0, keycode 227 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 680134519, (-378,390), root:(269,412),
state 0x0, keycode 227 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

I take this to mean that something has changed in my X set up, and the
menu key is no longer properly mapped to anything. How would I go
about fixing this?

This might get the "Menu" keysymbol back to key 227:

xmodmap -e 'keycode 227 = Menu'


Thanks!

I added the following to my ~/.xmodmap, which is called from
.Xsession:

keycode 227 = Menu

Restarting X, I now get the following from xev for the menu key:

KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 686578088, (171,-9), root:(818,13),
state 0x0, keycode 227 (keysym 0xff67, Menu), same_screen YES,
XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 117
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 686578152, (171,-9), root:(818,13),
state 0x0, keycode 227 (keysym 0xff67, Menu), same_screen YES,
XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 117
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

Emacs now picks up the menu key, C-h k <menu> produces the following:

<menu> runs the command execute-extended-command
which is an interactive built-in function in `C source code'.
It is bound to <execute>, <menu>, M-x.

However, fluxbox stills ignores it. Any other suggestions?

Cheers,

Tyler


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