ineuw
October 18th, 2014, 05:40 AM
Using a standard US 105 microsoft 600 keyboard on Xubuntu 14.04. Edited the /etc/default/keyboard file and assigned the superkey to the left windows key (lwin).
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="composer:lwin"
Then logged out & in and the xorg.0.log did not register the change (see attached file). Then, I tried using xorg.conf to load up the options and this didn't work either.
Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
Option "xkb_layout" "us"
Option "xkb_options" "composer:lwin"
However, the keyboard setting in the Setttings manager correctly identifies the Left Win key as the superkey, and if I type in the terminal setxkbmap -option compose:lwin then the superkey works for the duration of the session. setxkbmap -print -verbose 10 produces the following report
Setting verbose level to 10
locale is C
Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev...
Trying to load rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev...
Success.
Applied rules from evdev:
rules: evdev
model: pc105
layout: us
options: compose:lwin
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types: complete
compat: complete
symbols: pc+us+inet(evdev)+compose(lwin)
geometry: pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)+compose(lwin)" };
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
};
What am I doing wrong?
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="composer:lwin"
Then logged out & in and the xorg.0.log did not register the change (see attached file). Then, I tried using xorg.conf to load up the options and this didn't work either.
Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
Option "xkb_layout" "us"
Option "xkb_options" "composer:lwin"
However, the keyboard setting in the Setttings manager correctly identifies the Left Win key as the superkey, and if I type in the terminal setxkbmap -option compose:lwin then the superkey works for the duration of the session. setxkbmap -print -verbose 10 produces the following report
Setting verbose level to 10
locale is C
Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev...
Trying to load rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev...
Success.
Applied rules from evdev:
rules: evdev
model: pc105
layout: us
options: compose:lwin
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types: complete
compat: complete
symbols: pc+us+inet(evdev)+compose(lwin)
geometry: pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)+compose(lwin)" };
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
};
What am I doing wrong?