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IceS2

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Registered: 2017-05-04

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[Solved] Need help with my keymappings!

Hello! I've just bought a new notebook and installed Arch Linux with i3 on it.
I'm trying to configure a few keys that weren't configured by default such as multimedia keys and touchpad  enable/diable key.

I manged to get the multimedia keys working but when I try to get my touchpad key working there's something weird happening.

Using

xev | awk -F'[ )]+' '/^KeyPress/ { a[NR+2] } NR in a { printf "%-3s %s\n", $5, $8 }'

and pressing given key my output is:

133 Super_L
33 p

How comes my key pressing is returning two different keycodes?

On my i3 config I  had configured for the XF86TouchpadToggle key to work, but I guess that I just need to rebind the 133 KeyCode. The Issue at the moment is that my Touchpad toggle key is returning two keycodes,
I still don't understand anything about key mapping so any help is welcomed!
Thanks (=

Last edited by IceS2 (2017-12-13 16:02:19)

Trilby

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Re: [Solved] Need help with my keymappings!

Are you sure that was your touchpad toggle key?  It's more likely that the toggle key did not emit a signal, and those results were due to you pressing Mod+p during that same interval.

Getting rid of that awk filter would help see what is going on as it filters out key presses that were already bound by another process.

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IceS2

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Re: [Solved] Need help with my keymappings!

Trillby... I'm not sure because I know nothing about this... but I think it is.
xev unfiltered with the output caused by me pressing my touchpad toggle key:

KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001,
    root 0x126, subw 0x0, time 7720873, (-354,657), root:(298,679),
    state 0x0, keycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001,
    root 0x126, subw 0x0, time 7720873, (-354,657), root:(298,679),
    state 0x40, keycode 33 (keysym 0x70, p), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (70) "p"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (70) "p"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001,
    root 0x126, subw 0x0, time 7720926, (-354,657), root:(298,679),
    state 0x40, keycode 33 (keysym 0x70, p), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (70) "p"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001,
    root 0x126, subw 0x0, time 7720926, (-354,657), root:(298,679),
    state 0x40, keycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

seth

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Re: [Solved] Need help with my keymappings!

The key apparently emits a sequence, likely to trigger a windows shortcut (Meta+p)

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IceS2

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Re: [Solved] Need help with my keymappings!

Hey Seth, is there anyway to change that behavior?

IceS2

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Re: [Solved] Need help with my keymappings!

Well, I was being stupid. I'm sorry guys!
The key actually does Windows + p in order to project some stuff, that's something new in Windows 10 for what I saw.
There's no Toggle Touchpad Key on my notebook!
I'll just get a shortcut for my script going and we're all  good.
Solved!