OS: Fedora release 26 (Twenty Six)


My laptop's alt key doesnt work anymore.
I would like to set the left Windows key as the left Alt key, i.e. have the windows key transmit the left Alt key sequence.
I tried using xmodmap but getting a lot of errors.


1) Tried the following and upon loading with xmodmap, gives me errors.
I think the left Windows key is Mod4

clear Alt
clear Mod4
add Mod4 = Alt_L Alt_R


error:
xmodmap: /home/sunil/.Xmodmap:1: bad clear modifier input line




2) Even the following examples i was trying to test with give errors:
xmodmap −e "keysym BackSpace = Delete"
xmodmap: unable to open file '−e' for reading



3) xev : not sure if xev can capture the windows key scan codes!!!


4) showkey also errors out. Probably because of gnome ? and that this is not an xterm ? rather its a gnome terminal ??

showkey --keycodes
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console


Can someone please tell me what i'm doing wrong ? and how to do this correctly??


tia,


Sunil

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On 05/11/17 21:26, sellputcall@gmail.com wrote:

clear Alt
clear Mod4
add Mod4 = Alt_L Alt_R

error:
xmodmap:/home/sunil/.Xmodmap:1: bad clear modifier input line

clear Alt_L ???


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