https://miek.nl/tags/xkb/ Recent content in Xkb on Miek Gieben Hugo en-us © Copyright 2007-2024 Miek Gieben Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:18:00 +0000 https://miek.nl/2014/october/28/xmodmap-is-dead/ Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:18:00 +0000 https://miek.nl/2014/october/28/xmodmap-is-dead/ <p>I&rsquo;m using an Apple keyboard at work since a day or two, but for some reason this keyboard has a special key for eject, because in 1898 that was useful when you wanted to eject a cdrom.</p> <img alt="Apple Keyboard" width="300px" src="https://miek.nl/images/apple.jpg" title="Apple keyboard with the eject key" /> <p>Anyway making this key do something useful proved incredible painful, especially since <code>xmodmap</code> is deprecated and we should all use xkb (<code>setxkbmap</code> and<code>xkbcomp</code>). In our new world of hotplugging everything this kinda makes sense (xmodmap settings are lost when your USB keyboard goes to sleep).</p>