Talk:Xbindkeys

Internationalization and xbindkeys

Latest comment: 17 December 20191 comment1 person in discussion

The wiki suggests that xbindkeys should be added in fx. xinitrc:

"before the line that starts your window manager or DE."

...which means it starts before X. But to me it appears xbindkeys is affected by the keymap, as I have a bind for "Mod4 + plus" which doesn't work until I kill xbindkeys and restart it. That made me think that maybe it's related to X starting after xbindkeys, which via a xorg.conf.d config persistently sets my keymap. And indeed, if I set the keymap with setxkbmap inside xinitrc before xbindkeys it works. So it seems that it's better to start xbindkeys after X launches instead of before, at least for people in my situation? Or use setxkbmap in xinitrc to set the keymap instead of setting it via xorg.conf.d.

Anyone else have experiences in this regard? I could just add this to the article, but I'd like to verify it with others first.

Biowaste (talk) 23:08, 17 December 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

HP Omen Laptop keyboard.

On my hp omen laptop on the left side i have 6 dedicated keys P1,P2,P3,P4,P5 and P6 and i try with Xbindkeys to make some use of them but i cant manage to make them work,with xbindkeys -k i get that

"Press combination of keys or/and click under the window. You can use one of the two lines after "NoCommand" in $HOME/.xbindkeysrc to bind a key. "(Scheme function)"

   m:0x14 + c:37
   Control+Mod2 + Control_L"

but when i put a program to open it aint working,i allsow have a special Omen key wich works,if there is some1 who can gimmie a hand will be awsome. PS. Im a noob in Linux. Thanks a lot!

—This unsigned comment is by Hiperborea (talk) 12:42, 18 July 2023. Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

Hey, welcome to the Linux world:D Newbie Corner is a better place to ask. Anyway, I think I'll add some links for `xev` and `showkey` to troubleshooting section. Andrei Korshikov.