Hello everyone
I'm on FreeBSD 12.1 and I've had this problem in 11.4 as well. My laptop's keyboard has a few broken keys so I have a USB keyboard attached to it. During installation I chose the standard US layout and all the regular keys on the USB keyboard work fine and xev recognizes them except for multimedia keys (vol up/down, mute). And I notice a strange behavior with x11/sxhkd: I tried to bind the PrintScreen key to a command so I looked at its value in xev ("Print") but when I put this keycode in my sxhkdrc, the PrintScreen key doesn't do anything, instead I get that command from the "UP" arrow key. I did see a difference in how xev reports the keycodes for regular alphabetical keys vs keys like PrintScreen, Scroll Lock, etc. For example, if I press the "W" key, I get something like this:
but with PrintScreen:
Another weird thing is when I do
I don't plan on using my laptop's keyboard, so is there a way to remove all the keymappings and install a new one "only" for the external keyboard? (in case that's the easier route)
here's the complete output of
I'm on FreeBSD 12.1 and I've had this problem in 11.4 as well. My laptop's keyboard has a few broken keys so I have a USB keyboard attached to it. During installation I chose the standard US layout and all the regular keys on the USB keyboard work fine and xev recognizes them except for multimedia keys (vol up/down, mute). And I notice a strange behavior with x11/sxhkd: I tried to bind the PrintScreen key to a command so I looked at its value in xev ("Print") but when I put this keycode in my sxhkdrc, the PrintScreen key doesn't do anything, instead I get that command from the "UP" arrow key. I did see a difference in how xev reports the keycodes for regular alphabetical keys vs keys like PrintScreen, Scroll Lock, etc. For example, if I press the "W" key, I get something like this:
Code:
KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2600002,
root 0x47f, subw 0x0, time 5756771, (189,-199), root:(907,208),
state 0x0, keycode 25 (keysym 0x77, w), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (77) "w"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (77) "w"
XFilterEvent returns: Falsebut with PrintScreen:
Code:
KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2600002,
root 0x47f, subw 0x0, time 5758611, (189,-199), root:(907,208),
state 0x0, keycode 107 (keysym 0xff61, Print), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: FalseAnother weird thing is when I do
xmodmap -pke, it shows me 255! keycodes and I think this is the number of keycodes for both laptop and external keyboard keys because I see keys that are exclusive to each keyboard which by the way include the multimedia keys from USB keyboard, so I don't know why xev doesn't show anything when I press them. I also see keys that don't exist on any of my keyboards ("Hiragana_Katakana", "Muhenkan", etc).I don't plan on using my laptop's keyboard, so is there a way to remove all the keymappings and install a new one "only" for the external keyboard? (in case that's the easier route)
here's the complete output of
xmodmap -pk: https://ghostbin.com/paste/JrMCA