right ctrl key not working

What keycodes / keysyms are reported when you run /usr/openwin/demo/xev

and press left & right control?

On a german layout usb keyboad I get:

keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L)

keycode 109 (keysym 0xffe4, Control_R)

(and right control + 'f' works in mozilla).

jkeil at 2007-7-5 17:13:23 >

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I get these codes:

KeyRelease event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0xd00001,

root 0x36, subw 0x0, time 1250033513, (833,341), root:(837,362),

state 0x4, keycode 231 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,

XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""

KeyRelease event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0xd00001,

root 0x36, subw 0x0, time 1250055435, (807,256), root:(811,277),

state 0x0, keycode 235 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,

XLookupString gives 1 characters: ""

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Hmm, 231 and 235 are strange keycode numbers. Which X11 server are

you using? Xsun or Xorg?

Are you using Xorg with a custom xorg.conf file? Did you configure on of

the special "internet" keyboards? It seems these use keycodes 231 / 235...

xmodmap -e "keycode 235 = Control_R"

should fix the problem.

jkeil at 2007-7-5 17:13:23 >