From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24272 invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2013 10:55:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 24262 invoked by uid 89); 20 Jun 2013 10:55:00 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from nm5-vm7.bt.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (HELO nm5-vm7.bt.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com) (212.82.99.228) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:54:59 +0000 Received: from [212.82.98.45] by nm5.bt.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Jun 2013 10:54:56 -0000 Received: from [217.146.188.236] by tm6.bt.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Jun 2013 10:54:56 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp821.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Jun 2013 10:54:56 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: u.JgLvyswBBMp9ZJJfsX14qmYb3T2ivhMAr6OupnxLpNQEFZ9g-- X-Rocket-Received: from [192.168.1.72] (jon.turney@86.132.49.67 with plain) by smtp821.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Jun 2013 10:54:56 +0000 UTC Message-ID: <51C2DF91.1010605@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:55:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: david@adboyd.com Subject: Re: cygwin and xwin and super and hyper References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00044.txt.bz2 On 19/06/2013 22:27, J. David Boyd wrote: > I can get my capslock key to be super with the command line 'setxkbmap -option > caps:super', but I can't get 'setxkbmap -option altwin:hyper_win' to do > anything. > > Running 'setxkbmap -print' shows both options as being set, but the win keys > still act as the win key. > > Is there something else I need to do so windows lets go of these keys? Yes. Again, let me refer you to [1]. The operative sentence is: > (Note that mapping the Windows keys to hyper also requires the -keyhook > option, so that the X server sees those keys before the Windows shell) One thing I failed to mention there is that without any keymap options the keymap should give you super on the windows keys, but you will still need -keyhook X server option to enable the X server to see the key. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-03/msg00427.html -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/