Re: Bind right shift and TAB won't work

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.05.2013 um 23:08 schrieb Emanuel Berg:

> Yeah, can you use xev in the console?

Yes: xev &; it will record all keyboard actions like pressing or releasing a 
key. At least, when X11 is running.

> 
> C-q doesn't notice the news either: I hold shift, but only TAB shows.

In the console or any other terminal emulator you won't have as many "keyboard 
events" as in a windowing system. The latter can construct any number of 
synthetic events, the former at least sometimes allows for additional keyboard 
codes via X resources or such. One of my terminal emulations for example sends, 
via such a preference, "ESC [ Z" when I press S-TAB…

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