[mythtv-users] xmodmap vs lirc question

Dan Ritter dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu
Mon Jan 7 15:41:44 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:25:31AM -0500, Evuraan::???????????????????????? wrote:
> 
> The question is, how can this be done in xmodmap? Say, keycode 222 is
> mapped to "q" in the following xmodmap example, how can it be set to
> run, say, /usr/bin/blah ?
> 
> ! QUIT
> keycode 222 = q

You can't. xmodmap changes the keyboard mapping, which governs
how keystrokes are interpreted. It doesn't execute any programs,
just alters the map.

-dsr-

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