Keyboard shortcuts in /etc/qubes/guid.conf

[Noor Christensen]

Hi,

I was about to change the key sequences gobally used for VM clipboard
managament and found /etc/qubes/guid.conf to be the correct place.

Then I got curious, what subsystem is Qubes using for the keyboard
bindings? I need to figure out what the Mod4/Meta/Windows key is called
in this particular context.

I took a peek at the libconfig manual[0] as mentioned in the "Getting
started" docs[1] but it does not mention anything specific about
keyboard or input control, so I guess those values are parsed by some
other entity actually handling the key bindings.

[0] http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig_manual.html
[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/getting-started/

-- noor

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[Noor Christensen]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 10:44:14AM +0200, Noor Christensen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was about to change the key sequences gobally used for VM clipboard
> managament and found /etc/qubes/guid.conf to be the correct place.
>
> Then I got curious, what subsystem is Qubes using for the keyboard
> bindings? I need to figure out what the Mod4/Meta/Windows key is called
> in this particular context.
>
> I took a peek at the libconfig manual[0] as mentioned in the "Getting
> started" docs[1] but it does not mention anything specific about
> keyboard or input control, so I guess those values are parsed by some
> other entity actually handling the key bindings.

I found some clues in the qubes-gui-daemon source:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-gui-daemon/blob/ad966ddd5d57b30a47651471a1cbdbe7ac8231fa/gui-daemon/xside.c#L2957

However, I'm having problems using Mod4 as a key identifier here.

Anybody else having success with this?

[Unman]

I assume you mean the "Side view of four qubes waving around" key?(TM
Rusty Bird)
Use xev and you will probably find it's mapped to Super_L, but "Super" will
probably do. Try it.

unman

[Noor Christensen]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 03:03:44PM +0100, Unman wrote:
> I assume you mean the "Side view of four qubes waving around" key?(TM Rusty Bird)

Haha, yes! That's the one. From this moment on, I am never calling that
key "the flag key" anymore...

> Use xev and you will probably find it's mapped to Super_L, but "Super" will
> probably do. Try it.

Thanks, I'll try it out later tonight.

-- noor