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/