Remap Keys for Compuz Fusion

[samjones]

I'm using a Kinesis keyboard, which is a great, comfortable ergonomic keyboard, but it has no windows key. I was fine with this, but now I'm using Compiz Fusion, which makes really extensive use of the windows (or 'super') key.

What I'd like to do is remap my right alt key to the super key. I can do this for individual windows, but I can't find a way to do it that Compiz recognizes. I'm using Fedora Core 9 on an x86_64 machine. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

[samjones]

Thanks for the super quick reply. I have ccsm, and I can remap all the super key things to alt key things with the compiz setting manager, but there's a lot of cases where that would overwrite a map that I already have for an alt key.

But, as best I can tell, ccsm won't let me map one function to leftAlt+tab and another function to rightAlt+tab, which is the kind of thing I want to do. Or am I overlooking something?

[samjones]

You people have left me no choice but to research my own solution. The command to use is "xmodmap".

"xmodmap -pm" Shows the mappings in place. Here's an example:

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x71),  Meta_L (0x9c)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3      
mod4        Super_L (0x7f),  Hyper_L (0x80)
mod5        Mode_switch (0x5d),  ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c)

So we need to pull Alt_R out of mod1 and put it into mod4. We can do this with two commands:

xmodmap -e "remove mod1 = Alt_R"
xmodmap -e "add mod4 = Alt_R"

And that's it. The right alt key is a windows key for the rest of the session. I found the solution at this site:

http://www.columbia.edu/~djv/docs/keyremap.html