Bug 237614

Summary: Unable to use Meny key in shortcuts
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Magnus Johansson <johanssongreppet>
Component: shortcutsAssignee: Michael Jansen <kde>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: kwin-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian stable   
OS: Linux   
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Description Magnus Johansson 2010-05-14 13:39:44 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages

In Mepis 8.0 using KDE 3.5.10 I was able to create keyboard shortcuts including the Menu key, e.g. opening the K menu with Ctrl+Menu. This is not possible in Mepis 8.5 using KDE 4.3.4.
Comment 1 Thomas Lübking 2010-05-14 17:52:07 UTC 
what is the menu key? 

keycode 115 ("mod4" the key between left ctrl and alt, probably has a windows logo) is a meta key (iirc always has been)
you'll have to eg. modmap it to another key (like F13, as you probably don't have F13-F20) if you want to use it as full key

try "xmodmap -e "keycode 115 = F13", then try assign this key to whatever. (you can automize this via eg. ~/.kde/share/autostart/
add a file "xprofile.desktop"

-- snip --
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=/bin/sh $HOME/.xprofile
#Hidden=true
Name=xprofile
Type=Service
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
X-KDE-autostart-phase=0
-- end snip --

and "$HOME/.xprofile"
containing the above command or
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap (which you'll have to fill with the required aliases, at least "keycode 115 = F13" (w/o the quotes)
Comment 2 Magnus Johansson 2010-05-14 23:40:17 UTC 
Thomas, the Menu key has a small image of a drop-down menu and a mouse pointer arrow on it, and the key is most often placed to the left of the right Ctrl key. Its key code is 117.
Comment 3 Thomas Lübking 2010-05-15 00:47:45 UTC 
... and keysym 0xff67, you're right.
Qt seems to (internally) bind it to the context event (ie. you get the rmb instead, i was not able to add it by editing kglobalshortcutsrc)
Comment 4 Magnus Johansson 2010-05-21 09:56:00 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> ... and keysym 0xff67, you're right.
> Qt seems to (internally) bind it to the context event (ie. you get the rmb
> instead, i was not able to add it by editing kglobalshortcutsrc)

Would you report it as a bug to the Qt developers?
Comment 5 Martin Flöser 2010-05-23 16:34:09 UTC 
definately not a kwin bug. I hope I found the correct product/component combination (is there a cheat sheet?). If not please assign to correct one.
Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2011-12-21 22:35:01 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 165542 ***