microsoft natural keyboard 4000 F10/Spell

[Frank Cox]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 18:02:00 -0600
Frank Cox wrote:

> xmodmap -e "keycode 432 = F10"
> 
> xev shows no output when I press F10/Spell after entering the above
> command.
> 
> xmodmap -pke shows keycodes only up to 255, so 432 is probably an invalid
> number for that purpose anyway, though it doesn't show any error when I assign
> it as shown above.

I just found out why:

 xmodmap -n -e "keycode 432 = F10"
! dump of work queue
        keycode 0xb0 = F10

And sure enough, xmodmap -pke shows me this:

keycode 176 = F10

So xmodmap wraps the 432 and changes keycode 176 (hex b0) to F10 instead of




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