Thanks for the help.  I'm learning something and I have a mystery to 
solve.  I just found that the down arrow key (not the one on the keypad) 
give me a ¢.  Also the end key gives me a £. The other arrow keys work 
as they should.

On 11/12/2013 10:28 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
> On 2013-11-12 10:11, Derek Trotter wrote:
>> On 11/12/2013 09:14 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
>>> In most keymaps, they're mapped to one of the modifiers, usually
>>> Super or Hyper.  xmodmap is also only good for binding single
>>> keys to other single keys (or to modifiers).
>> delboy@ladmo:~$ xmodmap -pm
>> mod4        sterling (0x85),  cent (0x86),  Super_L (0xce), Hyper_L 
>> (0xcf)
>> When I start xev and press one of the windoze keys, all that xev does
>> is print the character.
>
> If you have a key bound to both a modifier and a keysym, you will 
> *not* get the things you want.  This is not obvious from the man 
> page.  You probably want to do something more like this:
>
> xmodmap -e 'clear mod4'
> // removes modifier table entries where 'Doze keys = Super_
> xmodmap -e 'keycode 115 = sterling'
> // maps left Windows key to the pound symbol
> xmodmap -e 'keycode 116 = cent'
> // maps right Windows key to the cent symbol
>
> A better way of getting non-US-ASCII chars out of a US keyboard is to 
> map one unused key to Multi_key .  Then you can get all kinds of 
> interesting things:
>
> Multi_key + ' , next vowel you type will have an acute accent.
> Multi_key + ` , next vowel you type will have a grave accent.
> Multi_key + " , next vowel has an umlaut.
> Multi_key + ~ , next vowel or n has a tilde.
> Multi_key + s , type another s, get German es-tset (looks like a beta)
> Multi_key + C , type = , get Euro symbol
> Multi_key + - , type L , get pound symbol
>
> There are so many of these things that there's no way I can list them 
> all, but they're in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose .
>

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