Hello,

On 4/24/25 01:24, Van Snyder wrote:

On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 17:04 -0500, David Wright wrote:

On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 13:52:07 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote:

On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 14:26 -0500, David Wright wrote:

  XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:caps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

xev says the Windows key is known to X as "Menu."

XKBOPTIONS="pause:menu"

didn't work.

Yes, I did reboot after editing /etc/default/keyboard.

You might try using xmodmap to set it: the man page has several
examples. You would then put the command into, say, ~/.xsession
so that it gets run automatically at startup.

xev said "pause" is 127, so I used xmodmap to set 127 to Menu:

xmodmap -e "keycode 127 = Menu"

xev than said the "pause" key is "Menu." But it didn't raise the KDE
menu the way the Window key does, even though xev also says the "Window"
key is "Menu"

I also put

xmodmap -e "keycode 127 = Menu"

into .xsession, made it executable, linked it to .Xsession, and put

keycode 127 = Menu

into ~/.Xmodmap

and when I rebooted, xev said "Pause" is "Menu" but it doesn't start the
KDE menu.

Maybe KDE subverts X11 settings.

Cheers,
David.

AFAIK, the tool xmodmap doesn't work on Wayland. But with a little
search in the Internet there also exists similar tools.

As workaround you could also define the shortcut for open the
application launcher (KDE menu) within the KDE settings:

Settings->Shortcuts->Plasma->Activate Application Launcher Widget

On my system (running Debian 12) there was ALT-F1 predefined for
opening the KDE menu.

Kind regards,

Johannes

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On Thu, 24 Apr 2025, at 05:01, David Wright wrote:

I don't define Menu in my Window Manager, but I can test
it works in FireFox. It has the same effect as pressing the
righthand mouse button ...

In Windows itself the Windows key and the Menu key are two
different keys, so surely the scan codes coming off a keyboard
that actually has both such keys will be different? Is there a
linux utility that shows scan codes?

(On one of my laptops the Windows key is next to Ctrl and Fn
at the bottom left of the keyboard, but "Menu" is what I get
if I press Fn plus the 0/Ins key on the numeric keypad.

I'm fairly sure that on another old laptop "Menu" was
somewhere else, but still needed Fn pressed.

It's been ages since I saw a "real" Menu key (as well as the
Windows key).)

--
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 08:57:16 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

xev told me that the "Windows" key on my keyboard (which opens the KDE menu) is "Super_L". "Menu" probably is another key that is meant to open the context menu (same as right clicking generally).

On my system (which has an HP USB keyboard, model SK-2502U, part number A4983-60401):

* The left Wing/Windows key is identified as "Super_L".
* The right Wing/Windows key would have been "Super_R" but I've mapped
it to "Multi_key".
* The Menu key is identified as "Menu".

I'm using startx to launch an X11 session, and I have a ~/.xsession
file. In my .xsession file, I have (among other commands):

xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc

And my ~/.xmodmaprc file contains:

=======================================================================
keysym Super_R = Multi_key

keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay
keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext =======================================================================

Those last four lines are from a previous keyboard; my current keyboard
does not have those buttons on it. But the lines in .xmodmaprc are
not hurting anything, so I left them in.

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On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:04:27 +0100
"Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbi.73@letterboxes.org> wrote:

Is there a linux utility that shows scan codes?

showkey
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kind regards
Frank

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