Re: Remap Mod4

[Tim Cuthbertson <tim gfxmonk net>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Ralph Hofmann <hofmann2004 arcor de> wrote:
> Am 21.08.2011 15:23, schrieb Jasper St. Pierre:
>>
>> See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624869
>>
>> It's a bug that's fixed in 3.1/3.2
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Ralph Hofmann<hofmann2004 arcor de>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 21.08.2011 11:39, schrieb Ralph Hofmann:
>>>>
>>>> Am 21.08.2011 10:53, schrieb John Stowers:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 10:21 +0200, Ralph Hofmann wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it possible to map the mod4 key (windows key on the left) to
>>>>>> another
>>>>>> key, for example the windows key on the right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In my Gnome2 setup, I am using many key combinations with mod4 and I
>>>>>> don't want to change that, but most of the combinations with mod4
>>>>>> obviously don't work anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you sure?
>>>>>
>>>>> I use Mod4 + t to launch a terminal, and that works fine in
>>>>> gnome-shell.
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>>>
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>>>> I have mapped mod4 + x to "Fenstergröße ändern"/"Resize window" and mod4
>>>> +
>>>> s to "Fenster verschieben"/"Move Window", but both of them don't work.
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>>> and "mod4 + space" to start gnome-do or kupfer doesn't work too.
>>>
>>> Maybe it's just a bug.
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>>
>
> Thank you.
>
> However I think it should be possible to remap Mod4. Why? For two reasons:
>
> 1. It should be possible to remap EVERY key.
>
> 2. Some users, for example me, don't need the overview mode very often. For
> them it is more efficient to use a key kombination instead of a single key
> for that purpose and keep the single key available for something used more
> frequently.
>
> Regards
>
> Ralph

>From the above linked bug thread:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624869#c6

so you can change which key is used, but I don't know if you can use a
multi-key combo.