I'm in possession of a Lenovo Ideapad S10e and its designers seem to have had the brilliant idea of skipping the right control key in favor of a useless menu key which is particularly bad for e.g. emacs users like me. Right now, the predefined xkeyboard-config options don't provide a customization to cope with the situation and I bet there are other laptop models affected. I've created a patch to map right control to the menu key but for a non-dev version of xkeyboard-config - right now I update the affected files each time an update comes in from my distro so I'd really like to see my changes going upstream as I believe others would benefit from doing so. Please tell me against which version to patch for the patch to be accepted, if possible at all. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/Rules doesn't seem to cover that (or I'm blind).
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/Development Please create a patch against the master branch in git
Created attachment 32748 [details] [review] patch to add modifiers for menu key Here you go. Hope everything is OK.
That patch is almost ok. But I do not like the idea to create 'menu' group just for this option. Could we extend altwin group?
I don't think altwin would be the appropriate place for a modifier targeting menu and ctrl - but neither altwin nor the ctrl group allow multiple selections right now, e.g. I am using a modifiers from either group (alt and meta on alt, swap ctrl and capslock) in my current layout and would suffer from having to dump one of them. The additional group seems appropriate because the modifier doesn't contradict with the existing ones but rather complement one another.
Ping
Sorry for delay. Actually, I think it would be reasonable to make 'ctrl' group multisel. That way your option would fit into it perfectly. What do you think?
Created attachment 36095 [details] [review] Patch incorporating the proposed change into existing ctrl group
(In reply to comment #6) > Sorry for delay. > Actually, I think it would be reasonable to make 'ctrl' group multisel. That > way your option would fit into it perfectly. What do you think? Hi Sergey, I'm also sorry for the long delay, $DAYJOB, you know ;) Your suggestion is really good IMO, the new patch reflects that and has been made against an updated version of git master.
Nice clean patch! Committed, thanks!
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