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[Alfe <address@hidden>]

Hi Vincent,

El.douwen wrote:

> i wrote this
> (question: how can i write the remarks ?)
> clear Mod1
> clear Mod2
> clear Mod3
> keycode 63 = Mod_H
> keycode 66 = Mod_A
> keycode 67 = Mod_M
> add Mod1 = Mod_A
> add Mod2 = Mod_M
> add Mod = Mod_H
> 
> the answer was:
> xmodmap:  /Users/vincent/.Xmodmap:4:  bad keysym name 'Mod_H' in keysym
> list
> xmodmap:  /Users/vincent/.Xmodmap:5:  bad keysym name 'Mod_A' in keysym
> list
> xmodmap:  /Users/vincent/.Xmodmap:6:  bad keysym name 'Mod_M' in keysym
> list
> xmodmap:  /Users/vincent/.Xmodmap:7:  bad keysym name 'Mod_A' in keysym
> list
> xmodmap:  /Users/vincent/.Xmodmap:7:  bad add modifier keysym list (empty)
> xmodmap:  /Users/vincent/.Xmodmap:8:  bad keysym name 'Mod_M' in keysym
> list
> xmodmap:  /Users/vincent/.Xmodmap:8:  bad add modifier keysym list (empty)
> xmodmap:  /Users/vincent/.Xmodmap:9:  bad add modifier name 'mod', not
> allowed
> xmodmap:  8 errors encountered, aborting.
> 
> i feel lost... and dont know where to find any explanations...

Where did you get the values "Mod_H" etc. from?  They are no valid key 
symbols.  Have a look at the output of 'man xmodmap' and look for names of 
files mentioned in there which contain the valid keysyms.  My man page, for 
instance, contains this paragraph:

       keysym KEYSYMNAME = KEYSYMNAME ...
               The  KEYSYMNAME on the left hand side is translated into match-
               ing keycodes used to perform the corresponding set  of  keycode
               expressions.   The  list  of  keysym  names may be found in the
               header file <X11/keysymdef.h> (without the XK_ prefix)  or  the
               keysym  database   /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB.   Note that if the
               same keysym is bound to multiple keys, the expression  is  exe-
               cuted for each matching keycode.

The file /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h then contains all the valid keysym 
names (on my system).

Greetings,

Alfe