Re: how to make the pause key switch keyboard variants?

On Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:34:49 -0500, Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid>
wrote in <yd5xlmgyom.fsf@UBEblock.psr.com>:

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> writes:

I wish I could toggle the variant using the pause key and not the menu
key as it is currently set on my OpenBSD system---see below.

 
I'm not sure, but this sounds more like something xmodmap(1) would do.
man xmodmap.
 
However, since I usually see "Pause" as "Break"+Shift on keyboards, you
may need to look at references to Break's keycode as well as Pause.
 -WBE

xev(1) shows the keycode on my Linux system:

KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0xd800001,
    root 0x1ee, subw 0xd800002, time 152673378, (38,41), root:(1869,1073),
    state 0x10, keycode 127 (keysym 0xff13, Pause), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0xd800001,
    root 0x1ee, subw 0xd800002, time 152673450, (38,41), root:(1869,1073),
    state 0x10, keycode 127 (keysym 0xff13, Pause), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Don't know if it would be different in BSD, but worth a try with xev(1).

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-v