[xmonad] shiftmask stopped working

Anders Engström ankaan at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 06:31:56 EDT 2009


Try xev (in a terminal).

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:01, Jim Burton <jim at sdf-eu.org> wrote:
> Does anyone know of an x application that I could use to work out what is
> actually being entered when I press a shift key (right and left have the
> same problem)? This might help me solve the problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
> Jim Burton wrote:
>> Hi, I upgraded my OS from ubuntu hardy to intrepid and shiftMask stopped
>> working in xmonad 0.8. Keybindings like M-p work but M-S-p does nothing or
>> tries to enter 'P' into the window with focus. I'm still using the same
>> keyboard & kbd layout. This is part of my xmonad.hs:
>>
>> myKeys (XConfig {modMask = modm}) =
>>                M.fromList [ ((modm .|. shiftMask,   xK_p),      spawn
>> "bash -ci emacs")
>>                           , ((modm,                 xK_F2),     spawn
>> "gmrun")
>>                           , ((modm .|. shiftMask,   xK_Tab),    windows
>> W.focusUp)
>>                           , ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_Delete), spawn
>> cmd_shutdown)
>>                           , ((modm,                 xK_p),      spawn
>> cmd_dmenu)
>>                           , ((modm .|. shiftMask,   xK_z),      spawn
>> "gnome-screensaver-command -l")
>>                           ]
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Jim Burton
>>
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>
>
> --
> Jim Burton
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