I have a bluetooth keyboard Samsung bkb10. It is keyboard for andoind mainly, so it does not have alt, super(winkey), f1-f12, menu, but has lots of hotkeys(most of them work nice under linux). But some hotkeys are not working, and I want to make thems to behave as alt, f1-f12, menu. Also i want hotkeys functions too, so i would love to make smth like Fn button for hotkeys. Well, that is all i want. At least i need alt,super,menu and f1-f12, could not imagine it is so hard without them under linux. So, i was trying to use keytouch - no luck. It is able to read correct keysym, but keytouch-editor saves only part of it into its keyboard files, and it appears that needed keys are same for keytouch too. Anyway i did not see it works for me at all, even with with many keys acting the same way. Right now keys that i want to make as Alt, super, menu, do not work at all, have same scancodes, but have different keysyms:
xev shows same thing for some hotkeys, that do not work :
KeyRelease event, serial 39, synthetic NO, window 0x5400001,
root 0xf5, subw 0x0, time 12647284, (224,225), root:(224,253),
state 0x0, keycode 248 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
But kacpimon can recognize their keysyms and that they are different keys:
Input Layer: Type: 4 Code: 4 Value: 787205
Input Layer: Type: 1 Code: 240 Value: 0
Input Layer: Sync
Input Layer: Type: 4 Code: 4 Value: 787207
Input Layer: Type: 1 Code: 240 Value: 1
Input Layer: Sync
Same as getscancodes:
787205 (0xc0305)
787205 (0xc0305)
787207 (0xc0307)
787207 (0xc0307)
sudo evtest /dev/input/evt14 output for same keys:
Event: time 1457614378.384393, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value c0305
Event: time 1457614378.384393, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 240 (KEY_UNKNOWN), value 1
Event: time 1457614378.384393, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1457614378.384420, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value c0305
Event: time 1457614378.384420, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 240 (KEY_UNKNOWN), value 0
Event: time 1457614378.384420, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1457614378.681877, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value c0307
Event: time 1457614378.681877, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 240 (KEY_UNKNOWN), value 1
Event: time 1457614378.681877, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1457614378.775600, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value c0307
Event: time 1457614378.775600, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 240 (KEY_UNKNOWN), value 0
Event: time 1457614378.775600, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
As you can see scancodes are same even in kacpimon, but keysyms are different in kacpimon, getscancode, evtest for every single key, but not for xev and other tools.
Also i think that getscancodes actually is showing keysyms, but not scancodes for them.
I know that xmodmap is old and i should not use, and that i should xkb. I was able to find some answer that could help me, if i wasn't noob - Custom keyboard layouts: adding a character for which no keysym is defined
Also that link might be usefull but it is outdated, so i cannot check it-Don't use showkey or xev -- use udev and evtest instead.
But i cannot do it with xkb or xmodmap, i just cannot understand how. Please help me, working on it for 3 full days and still did not find any solution... Thank you very much!
