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tomaszd

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Registered: 2007-02-18

Posts: 1

Bind menu key and left windows key as 3rd level modifier

How do I bind the menu key and left windows key as a third level modifier in Xfce 4.4.0 ? In GNOME it was easy, now that I've switched to Xfce I really need this feature, without it Xfce is rather useless for me, as I can't input Polish letters (my right alt key, which is the ordinary 3rd level modifier, is broken). Please help me.

Jellybean

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Registered: 2007-02-17

Posts: 43

Re: Bind menu key and left windows key as 3rd level modifier

You must change it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

lv3:switch           Press Right Control to choose 3rd level.
  lv3:menu_switch      Press Menu key to choose 3rd level.
  lv3:win_switch       Press any of Win-keys to choose 3rd level.
  lv3:lwin_switch      Press Left Win-key to choose 3rd level.
  lv3:rwin_switch      Press Right Win-key to choose 3rd level.
  lv3:alt_switch       Press any of Alt keys to choose 3rd level.
  lv3:lalt_switch      Press Left Alt key to choose 3rd level.
  lv3:ralt_switch      Press Right Alt key to choose 3rd level.

You can set this in the InputDevice section of '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' like this:
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option      "XkbRules"      "xorg"
    Option      "XkbModel"      "logicink"
    Option      "XkbLayout"     "us"
    Option      "XkbVariant"    "intl"
    Option      "XkbOptions"    "lv3:lwin_switch"
EndSection

(My right alt key is broken as well.)