keyboard shift stopped working - old kernel, vmware

[Scott Robbins]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 07:27:40PM +1000, David Timms wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:


>I have an xmodmaprc that reads
> >keycode 115 = Super_L
> >add Mod4 = Super_L
> >keycode 117 = Multi_key
> >keycode 50 = Shift_L
> >Sometimes, it seems that running xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc will fix it.  
> 
> This is on a laptop's builtin keyboard.
> so next time I should try:
> - xev, and
> - xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc  next time it happens, or does that file not exist by 
> default.

My apologies, you have to manually create a $HOME/.xmodmaprc file.


> Thanks, for the comments, I dislike being the only one with weird issues.

I know, on my flakey laptop, I had lots of Just Me issues.   :) (and
stil have, I guess.)


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