[svlug] new keysym - is it possible?

[Drew Bertola]

Erik Steffl writes:
>   the keyboards I have (logitech itouch and turbo-media (it's basically
> a noname from compUSA)) have various extra keys, for volume, audio
> player control etc... I would like to use these under X, I already
> figured out that xev gives me the keycode and that xmodmap maps this
> keycode to a keysym.
> 
>   since these keys are 'special' I would like to use unique keysyms, not
> the ones already existing (just to help me remember which keys are these
> and also that these keysym were created (and mapped) by me). However if
> I use non-existing keysym I get:
> 
> jojda:~>xmodmap -e 'keycode 234 = erikMenu'
> xmodmap:  commandline:0:  bad keysym name 'erikMenu' in keysym list
> xmodmap:  1 error encountered, aborting.
> 
>   my question is: is it possible to create a new keysym? if yes, the
> next question is naturally: how?

Try using one of the keysyms defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymD
(on my RH7 system).  There are keysyms such as:

XF86HomePage            :1008FF18
XF86Mail                :1008FF19
XF86Start               :1008FF1A
XF86Search              :1008FF1B
XF86AudioRecord         :1008FF1C
XF86Calculator          :1008FF1D
XF86Memo                :1008FF1E
XF86ToDoList            :1008FF1F
XF86Calendar            :1008FF20
XF86PowerDown           :1008FF21

On my box, I have a "www", "mail", and "search" button (236, 178, 229,
respively), so I added these lines to my ~/.Xmodmap file:

keycode 178  =  XF86HomePage
keycode 229  =  XF86Search
keycode 236  =  XF86Mail

Then I setup shortcuts in Enlightenment to run commands when any of
those is pressed.  (These commands don't have to match the intention
of the keyboard designer.)

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