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Asked: 2013-08-27 17:24:51 +0800 CST

How to map <Right Alt> to <Left Alt> + <F1>?

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Putting the following into a .xbindkeysrc makes my keyboard irresponsive after reboot, with only control keys responding:

"{ echo KeyStrPress Alt_L; echo KeyStr F1; echo KeyStrRelease Alt_L; } | xmacroplay :0"
  Release+F13

I know the xmacroplay works because I've executed it at the command line, and also, executing xbindkeys to map, for example, F2, without rebooting, works as expected. So, first, I have a problem after rebooting, because of that I had to remove the .xbindkeysrc file.

I was in the hard process of trying to create the simple mapping of Right Alt to Left Alt + F1 in the system. I was going to use xbindkeys to map F13 to Alt + F1 and xmodmap to map Right Alt to F13...

How do I map Right Alt to Left Alt + F1 so that I get hide/unhiding of the Launcher with a single key?

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  1. Best Answer

    First of all, by default, Left Alt + F1 shortcut is not for hide/unhide the Launcher. This shortcut is used to give keyboard-focus to the Launcher. This means: gives keyboard-focus to the Launcher so it can be navigated with the cursor-keys. If you don't trust me, run the following command in terminal:

    gsettings get org.compiz.unityshell:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/ keyboard-focus

    Now, to change Left Alt + F1 shortcut with another one, you can use the following command:

    gsettings set org.compiz.unityshell:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/ keyboard-focus 'new_shortcut'

    For example, to change it to Right Alt + F1, use:

    gsettings set org.compiz.unityshell:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/ keyboard-focus '<Mod5>F1'

    This works for mykeyboard (I mean "<Mod5>" for Right Alt key). I'm not sure for other keyboards as far as I can't test at the moment.

    See also: https://superuser.com/questions/53092/gnome-map-altgr-key-to-alt

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