Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!fauern!opal!tmpmbx!utower.tower.in-berlin.de!fischer From: fischer@utower.tower.in-berlin.de (Axel Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: xmodmap question (maybe dumb :-) Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 91 22:09:35 GMT Reply-To: fischer@utower.tower.in-berlin.de Organization: utower-net (located somewhere at the end of the universe) Lines: 38 Hello netlanders, I have tried to map the up, down, left and right cursor key to new Control keys. My .xmodmaprc is: ---- keycode 87 = Control_B keycode 91 = Control_P keycode 92 = Control_N keycode 91 = Control_F ---- Unfortunately xmodmap displays the following error messages: ---- xmodmap: .Xmodmap:0: bad keysym name 'Control_B' in keysym list xmodmap: .Xmodmap:0: bad keycode keysym list xmodmap: .Xmodmap:1: bad keysym name 'Control_P' in keysym list xmodmap: .Xmodmap:1: bad keycode keysym list xmodmap: .Xmodmap:2: bad keysym name 'Control_N' in keysym list xmodmap: .Xmodmap:2: bad keycode keysym list xmodmap: .Xmodmap:3: bad keysym name 'Control_F' in keysym list xmodmap: .Xmodmap:3: bad keycode keysym list xmodmap: 1 errors encountered, aborting. ---- Can anyone please help me out? Please reply via mail, if interest I summarize and post. -Axel -- fischer@utower.tower.in-berlin.de / fischer@tmpmbx.UUCP Class of '93 | That is not dead, which can eternal lie. Go fast - take chances. | Yet with strange aeons, even death may die.