Re: [orca-list] Changing the Orca Key... part 2

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson <jbsn tpg com au>]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 03:17:21PM +1000, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote:
> Hello Josh,
> 
> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 07:25:37AM -0700, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
> >    My expertise is largely Mac and WIndows based, so bear with me.
> >    Running Ubuntu in a virtual machine on a laptop.  I'd like to use the
> >    laptop layout, but VMWare Fusion for Mac doesn't give complete control of
> >    the caps lock key to the guest OS.  I'd like to preserve the laptop
> >    keyboard layout, and only change the Orca key to something else...possibly
> >    the accent key (`), or the right command key...or something.  It seems to
> >    me that this should be an included feature, but searching for the option
> >    and through the Orca WIKI and various other resources has turned up
> >    nothing.  Can anyone help?  Thanks.
> 
> It can be done, but you have to manually edit ~/.orca/user-settings.py.
> 
> Willie Walker explained it to me on this list on 11th June, 2007. Have a 
> look in the archive. The problem might be for you to find out what the 
> name of your intended modifier key would be. It was suggested to find 
> this out by running xev. However, when I tried that with Orca, it said 
> "inaccessible". I dropped the matter, then, but I tried again to day, 
> with a much later version of Orca, but with the same result. I wanted to 
> use the Windows keys on my keyboard, since they don't seem to be used 
> for anything else and being on both side of the keyboard. Will offered 
> the information that on his keyboard one Windows key was referred to as 
> Super_L. I made the following addition to my ~/orca/user-settings.py 
> file:
> 
> orca.settings.orcaModifierKeys = ["Super_L"] 
> 
> This works fine - with the left Windows key. I'll find out what to call 
> the right Windows key, when my wife gets home.
> 
> Hope that this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bertil Smark Nilsson
> 
It suddenly occurred to me that I could exit Orca and do it "blind", 
sending the xev output  to a file. And I did. And it worked. Of course, 
the right Windows key is called "Super_R"! Stupid me!

Bertil