From: mark-r@ee.man.ac.uk (Mark Robinson) Subject: Re: How to use F keys to move X-windows front and back? Date: 12 Mar 1993 14:54:40 GMT
splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) writes:
>I've been trying to use xmodmap to define the equivalent of the Sun 'Front'
>key without success. If I look in /usr/lib/X11/KeysymDB, I see a definition
>for SunFront, but xmodmap -e "keysym F8 = SunFront" doesn't seem to do the
>job. It takes, but then F8 has no effect.
>Can anybody provide some insight?
The secret is to notice that on the sun keyboard the left hand
keypad has secondary functions L1 to L10, so simply bind the function
keys to the L keys with commands of the form
keysym F1 = L1
etc.
Because the PC function keys are in a line, I rearranged the bindings
to put copy next to paste, etc, and printed myself a little function
key strip to remind me of the functions.
'open', 'front', 'copy', 'paste' and 'cut' all work but for some reason
'find' just echos garbage to the tty.
Mark