Bug 1136

Summary: Window Manager not receiving Super_L keypress events
Product: xorg Reporter: George Toft <george>
Component: Server/GeneralAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: mharris
Version: 6.7.0   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description George Toft 2004-08-19 06:51:48 UTC 
Fedora Core 3 Test 1
Package: xorg-x11-6.7.0-6
Window Manager: IceWM version: icewm-1.2.13-1

IceWM makes extensive use of the windows key (Super_L and Super_R) for workspace
navigation.  As far as I can tell, IceWM is not receiving either the Super_L nor
Super_R keypress events.  The following URL indicates this is a bug with X:
<http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-
August/054446.html>.  Using same version of IceWM on XFree86 supports this theory.

xev reports the following when the windows key (Super_L) is pressed:
KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    root 0x60, subw 0x0, time 39132174, (96,90), root:(98,114),
    state 0x10, keycode 115 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    root 0x60, subw 0x0, time 39132392, (96,90), root:(98,114),
    state 0x50, keycode 115 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 

xev provides expected results.

Changing keyboards from a 104 key US keyboard to a Microsoft Natural keyboard
has no effect.
Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2004-09-01 05:11:06 UTC 
This appears to possibly be a duplicate of the following bugs:

    http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=587
    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78467
    http://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=5740&action=view
Comment 2 George Toft 2004-09-01 07:18:30 UTC 
The patch from seconf link <http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78467> did not
work.  The changes to Xmodmap (directed to be in ~/.Xmodmap) that I placed in
/etc/X11/xmodmap worked fine.

My fix:
cat <<EOF >> /etc/X11/Xmodmap
keycode 115 = Super_L
keycode 116 = Super_R
keycode 127 =
keycode 128 =
clear Mod4
add Mod4 = Super_L Super_R
EOF

Thank you for the assistance.

- George
Comment 3 Chris Lee 2005-09-14 03:52:35 UTC 
Looks like this was never updated properly. Closing.

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