On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 5:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, Petter Adsen wrote: > I've been playing with xmodmap to change the comma on the numpad > (Norwegian layout) to a period, as I mainly use the numpad for entering > IP addresses. According to the man page, section "Expression Grammar", > the first keysym is for the key with no modifier, and a second is for > the key with Shift as a modifier. > > However, when I run 'xmodmap -e "keycode 91=period"', the key simply > "dies", it no longer outputs anything, although 'xmodmap -pk' lists it > as set to "period". If I run 'xmodmap -e "keycode 91=period period"', > it works just fine (although it also sets it with Shift, but I don't > mind that). > > What am I doing wrong? Why can't I just change the keysym to be sent > without a modifier?
xmodmap is obsolete and increasingly broken in current distros. We are supposed to switch to setxkbmap. [I never said its better!] I asked same question on emacs list and got this answer from Yuri Khan https://groups.google.com/d/msg/gnu.emacs.help/yesOU0m0vIE/TDUo7QZDPdkJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/8626a68b-8baa-4cac-9449-cd4470a8d...@googlegroups.com
