On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Erik Falor <ewfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:03:50AM -0600, Dustin Kirkland wrote: >> I have been asked this several times and I haven't been able to find >> the answer myself. >> >> Is it possible to use the "Windows" key (Super_L) (between Ctrl and >> Alt) as the screen escape key? If so, how do you set this in your >> .screenrc? > > I'll take a stab at this. > > Assuming you're running Linux, there are two cases to consider: > > 1. Using one of your Virtual Consoles (Ctrl-Alt-Fn) > In the Linux virtual console, I think you stand a better chance. As > root, you can run showkey, which will show you the keycode which > corresponds to your windows keys. On my laptop, Super_L is 125 and > Super_R is 126. > > Then you can run dumpkeys to see what actions are taken when these > keys are pressed: > > # dumpkeys | grep -E "keycode *125|126" > keycode 125 = > keycode 126 = > > This means that the keymap the kernel loads doesn't emit anything when > these keys are pressed. > > You can use the loadkeys program to map the keycodes to another key, > or to map them to emit a string of your choosing. > > The code looks like this: > # loadkeys - <<EOF >> keycode 125 = F60 F61 F62 F63 F64 F65 >> string F60 = "F60" >> string F61 = "F61" >> string F62 = "F62" >> string F63 = "F63" >> string F64 = "F64" >> string F65 = "F65" > EOF > > Now, when you hit Super_L in the virtual console, the string F60 is > entered for you. Shift+Super_L yields F61. Ctrl+Super_L yields F64, > which is the sequence you'll care about. You should read `man loadkeys`. > > 2. Running a virtual terminal from X (such as xterm or rxvt) > > I think it is not possible in this case because the terminal never > sees the keycode Super_L generates. It is usually intercepted by your > window manager before being passed to an application. However, you > might be able to hack your X keyboard map to re-map Super_L into > something that would be passed onto your application by your window > manager. But, that may also cause Super_L to lose its super meaning > for any other apps that may wish to use it. > > Basically, it would mean that you edit one or more of the files > setxkbmap uses to build up your keyboard map, an operation equivalent > to what I described in case 1 using loadkeys. The webpages at [0] and > [1] will be of help for that task. > > Once you have the Super_L key acting more like its merely mortal > bretheren, you'll still need to tell .screenrc how to recognize it. > > The way I do this is to (outside of screen!) fire up Vim, press i to > enter insert mode, and press ctrl-V to instruct Vim to take the next key > sequence literally. I then type ctrl-whatever to see > how it looks to the terminal. I do this in Vim instead of Bash, > because I find that Vim echoes back more keys than will Bash. For > instance, I like to use Ctrl-space as my screen escape key. Typing > this literally into Vim results in ^...@. > > The appropriate entry in my .screenrc is, therefore, > escape ^@@ > > If I want to use ctrl-backslash, the .screenrc entry is > escape ^\\ > > I hope this at least points you in the right direction. > > [0] http://pascal.tsu.ru/en/xkb/setup.html > [1] http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/html/index.html
Very informative, thanks a lot! :-Dustin _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
