Re: Disabling Super key?

2008-07-12 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 05:08 PM, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Any idea how I could make the effect of xmodmap permanent? (Adding relevant lines to ~/.xsession doesn't seem to help.) Make a ~/.xmodmaprc with your setting(s) in it and then call

Re: Disabling Super key?

2008-07-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:47:57PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 05:08 PM, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Any idea how I could make the effect of xmodmap permanent? (Adding relevant lines to ~/.xsession doesn't seem to

Re: Disabling Super key?

2008-07-12 Thread Polytropon
Just a sidenote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:07:32 +0100, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use xdm(1) or similar display manager, then you want to put that line in ~/.xsession An option to have all settings in one file (traditionally the ~/.xinirc file) is to create a ~/.xsession file

Re: Disabling Super key?

2008-07-12 Thread Odhiambo Washington
After all that advice, one last piece remains - buy another keyboard;-) On 7/6/08, Girish Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way I could disable the Windows key on my keyboard? I use FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE on a Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. My Windows key (Super_L) has developed a

Disabling Super key?

2008-07-11 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Sebastian Tymków wrote: Did you try kbdcontrol ? Thanks. I could do that using kbdcontrol(1) although this disables the Windows key only in the console and not in X, where xmodmap(1) does the job instead. I could make the effect of kbdcontrol permanent by adding a

Re: Disabling Super key?

2008-07-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 05:08:18PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Sebastian Tymków wrote: Did you try kbdcontrol ? Thanks. I could do that using kbdcontrol(1) although this disables the Windows key only in the console and not in X, where xmodmap(1) does the

Disabling Super key?

2008-07-06 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Is there any way I could disable the Windows key on my keyboard? I use FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE on a Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. My Windows key (Super_L) has developed a problem for some unknown reason: it gets pressed and remains so without my touching it. I could diagnose this only using xev, which