xmodmap - where does it get default codes from?

[Colin Law]

Any ideas on this anyone?

On 23 May 2011 08:39, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to work out where xmodmap gets it keycodes from.  I have
> two users, on one of those, when I do
> xmodmap -pke
> then I see, for the left Win key I see
> keycode 133 = Super_L NoSymbol Super_L
> which maps the left win key to Super_L which so that in Unity the left
> win key works as Super as it should.  On the other user then xmodmap
> -pke shows
> keycode 133 = Multi_key Multi_key Multi_key Multi_key
> so the left win key does not work correctly in Unity.
>
> I have worked around the problem by creating a .xmodmaprc file and
> putting in there
> keycode 133 = Super_L
> and now it works correctly.  I would like to know why it is wrong in
> the first place however, I cannot see anything in that users setup
> that would cause the issue.  This was noticed after an upgrade to
> 11.04 and it seems that a number of others have encountered the same
> problem.  A fresh install of 11.04 on a different partition worked
> fine.
>
> Colin
>