Finding the right modifier ID in a japanese keyboard layout

xorg at henrik.synth.no xorg at henrik.synth.no
Wed May 14 04:25:42 PDT 2008


Daniel Stone skrev:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:43:33AM +0200, xorg at henrik.synth.no wrote:
>> Is there any tool (like xev) that prints the /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/* key 
>> identifiers as they are pressed?
> 
> xev prints out the keycode, which you can look up in
> /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes.

Yes, that was it!  Thanks a lot!

  .. and for the interrested readers, here are the keys I was searching for:

$ grep -e 129 -e 131 -e 208 /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 | head -3
     <HKTG> =   208;		// Hiragana_Katakana toggle
     <XFER> =   129;		// Henkan
     <NFER> =   131;		// Muhenkan

Henrik



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