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

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> posted:

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.

to which I replied:

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.

vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> then replied:

xev(1) shows the keycode on my Linux system:
>
KeyPress event,
[...]  state 0x10, keycode 127 (keysym 0xff13, Pause), same_screen YES,

I see the same keycode and keysym for Pause, but on "PC" type keyboards,
I see "Pause" printed above "Break" on the key label, and one has to
hold down a Shift key when pressing that key to get Pause.

Either way, I was just a bit surprised when it sounded like Salvador
seemed to be saying he has a keyboard where Pause doesn't require Shift.
 -WBE