I'm trying to achieve the following mapping
keycode 135 = <Ctrl-C>
Is it possible to achieve this in some way?
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Sign up to join this communityI'm trying to achieve the following mapping
keycode 135 = <Ctrl-C>
Is it possible to achieve this in some way?
That's not possible with xmodmap. I don't think it's possible with XKB either, but I'm not sure.
Is your aim to have a key that's always identical to pressing Ctrl+C (e.g. in a terminal, it would interrupt the running program), or to have a clipboard copy key? If the latter, try
keycode 135 = XF86Copy
The XF86Copy
keysym is intended for a copy-to-clipboard key, but I don't know how many applications have that shortcut out-of-the-box.
If you're on Ubuntu, and possibly even if you aren't, the recommended method to set up additional (“multimedia”) keys is keytouch.
If you really want the key to be equivalent to Ctrl+C, your desktop environment or window manager may let you bind the keysym to a command that generates key press and release events for that key combination. If you prefer or must use a DE/WM-agnostic method, you can use xbindkeys to bind an arbitrary shell command to a key, and xmacro to manufacture key events to send to a window. You'll still need to have a keysym associated with the key; a good choice is F13
(or wherever the numbered function keys on your keyboard leave off). Then put this in your ~/.xbindkeysrc
:
"{ echo KeySymPress Control_L; echo KeySym C; echo KeySymRelease Control_L; } | xmacroplay"
F13
You'll need to start xbindkeys
with your X session — from your ~/.xinitrc
or ~/.xsession
if you have one, or from the appropriate configuration interface in your DE/WM.