UK keyboard layout with winkeys

[Dave Ulrick]

On Fri, 28 May 2004, [iso-8859-1] Øyvind Stegard wrote:

> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 02:56:56PM +0100, Jon Homan wrote:
> > Dylan Parry wrote:
> [snip]
> > Using xev, I get the following output when the Win key alone is pressed:
> >
> > FocusOut event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x2800001,
> >     mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor
> >
> > FocusIn event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x2800001,
> >     mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor
> >
> > KeymapNotify event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
> >     keys:  2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
> >            0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
> >
> I have problems with the Windows key myself (Norwegian keybaord layout),
> I use it for lots of handy app-launching and WM shortcuts (in Gnome,
> though) I've tried it in KDE, the behaviour is exactly the same. But
> anyway, the reason you don't see the Win key pressed/released events is
> that the KMenu grabs them. Hit the win key many times quickly, and you
> should see some release/press events in the xev output as well , at
> least I did.
>
> The funny thing is that I am sure the keyboard setup is correct
> (xorg.conf, gnome-keyboard-properties,++), AND the win key is working
> correctly as Mod4 with my Metacity keybindings. But Gnome refuses to let
> me define shortcuts by pressing Win+XXXX, I must hardcode the
> key-strings of the shortcuts I want to use, into the config, myself.
> Also, Gnome won't let me use my own Xmodmap (which fixes things in KDE
> at least, for me). These problems might be related to the xorg-switch,
> OR new versions of KDE/Gnome with more keyboard control features built
> in (which is Good, I guess).

I had this problem too, albeit with the US English keyboard.  It
turned out to be an issue with the Xorg that's shipped with FC2:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123539

which I fixed by applying this patch to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/pc:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=100534&action=view

After killing the Xorg server and logging back in, I was able to use
the Win key.

Dave
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