Comments on: Better Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac X11 Apps

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:02:53 +0000

Answered my own question. It appears that leaving “Enable key equivalents under X11″ checked allows me to use command for both Mac and X11 functions. Command-~ works, and Command-Q will quit X11, but Control-Q can be used to quit individual programs.

I’m not sure what other effects this checkbox will have.

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:50:53 +0000

Hi,
One small problem that this introduces is to make the command key not behave in the default “Mac” way. For example, I can’t hit “command-Q” to quit, but more importantly, I can’t hit “command-~” to switch windows.

Do you know if there is a way to retrieve this functionality? Obviously, one could switch control to map to command (the converse of this hint), but this would be unintuitive as well. I wonder if command could take on both roles?

Cheers.

By: pajai

pajai — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:34:46 +0000

Hi Becca,

I just checked it on my laptop with OSX 10.5. Make sure you have the following two options *unchecked* in the X11 preferences (under ‘input’): ‘Follow system keyboard layout’ and ‘Enable key equivalent under X11′. Now it is working on my laptop.

Cheers,

By: Becca

Becca — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:58:10 +0000

Hi!

I’m confused. I have osx 10.5 and i can’t get this xmodmap thing to work. Looks like Pedro had the same problem, but i’m not understanding the solution. I’m just trying to get gimp to use command instead of control. Thanks!

Becca

By: pajai

pajai — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:08:06 +0000

Cool. Glad it was useful. Your blog entry seems nice indeed.

Cheers,

By: Simanek

Simanek — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:04:20 +0000

Thanks for this post. Now my favorite applications are almost enjoyable to use in OSX. I wrote up a how-to on my blog covering some of the issues your readers had and issues I had myself. It also covers a few aspects of using Vi since I had to look that up! X11: Switch Control Key To Apple/Command Key

By: kourouma

kourouma — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:43:14 +0000

Hi there. I would like to create a Xmodmap file as well, but unfortunately I have not the slightest idea how to do that. Can somebody please tell me? the home folder your talking about is the one with house icon I take it?
Thanks
Kourouma

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:22:25 +0000

Hi pat – I just got this working thanks to your comments here. I am now a very happy gimpshop user. Thanks, Justin.

By: pajai

pajai — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:15:37 +0000

Hi pedro,

Thank you for your feedback. Nice to see that it worked.

Cheers,

By: Pedro Estarque

Pedro Estarque — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:06:03 +0000

Hi pajai,

It worked !
I manually executed “modmap ~/.Xmodmap” and it’s great. Thanks !
Sorry for the late reply.