Re: Trying to use xmodmap to assign 'Insert' key, failing
Re: Trying to use xmodmap to assign 'Insert' key, failing
- Subject: Re: Trying to use xmodmap to assign 'Insert' key, failing
- From: "Bo Parker" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:46:14 -0500
A followup:
I've been trying to assign an "Insert" key in Apple's X11 on a Mac G4 running Mac OS 10.2.3.
Thanks to a tip from an abiword mailing list subscriber (thank you!), I've been trying to use the xmodmap command to do this.
I had tried
$ xmodmap -e "keycode 121 = Insert"
to assign Insert to the F15 key (keycode 121), but it didn't work.
Thanks to a tip from an Apple X11 mailing list subscriber (thank you!), I used the xev command to see what X11 "sees" when I pressed various keys. It turns out that F15 (and F14 and F13) aren't detected at all in xev. F12 was detected (keycode 119), so I tried
$ xmodmap -e "keycode 119 = Insert"
Bingo. F12 successfully switches abiword to "Overtype" mode.
Thanks to all for your help!
-Bo Parker
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