Disable shift-backspace logout in XGL and enable AltGr

It drove me mad that i logged always out from XGL after pressing accidentally shift-backspace.

You have to type:

xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace"

after your Window Manager started (that would be beryl in my case).

And because my AltGr key didn’t worked too i first looked at the keycode with xev which was 113.

Then a little lookup how the key is occupied:

xmodmap -pk

And finally to make the key work again:

xmodmap -e 'keycode 113 = Mode_switch'

And because i am a lazy person and dont want to type that over and over again to load it on startup i put both in my ~/.Xmodmap file:

echo 'keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace' >> ~/.Xmodmap
echo 'keycode 113 = Mode_switch' >> ~/.Xmodmap

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12 Responses to “Disable shift-backspace logout in XGL and enable AltGr”

  1. Thanks, for the quickfix and instructions on how to solidify it!

    ave0000 said this on at

  2. Thanks, found it on a german forum, i only translated it.

    princ3 said this on at

  3. Cheers. This was giving me the shit’s

    RamNinja said this on at

  4. Thank you, you are welcome.

    princ3 said this on at

  5. muito obrigado, era exatamente o que eu estava precisando !!

    thank you very much, it was accurately what I was needing !!

    Simão said this on at

  6. I have this problem, but when I try to run that command I get this

    ” xmodmap -e “keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace”
    xmodmap: unknown command on line commandline:1
    xmodmap: unable to open file ‘22′ for reading
    xmodmap: unable to open file ‘=’ for reading
    xmodmap: unable to open file ‘BackSpace’ for reading
    xmodmap: unable to open file ‘BackSpace”’ for reading
    xmodmap: 5 errors encountered, aborting.”

    any ideas?

    coolio said this on at

  7. try to remove the second quotation mark.

    princ3 said this on at

  8. I’m getting the same error as coolio.
    This shift + backspace issue has been killing me during my coding.
    I will do just about anything to get rid of it.
    Please help me…

    contrid said this on at

  9. Thanks :D

    Sam Bessey said this on at

  10. [...] this fixed it only for the current session though. Finally found out how to set it permanently here. Type echo ‘keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace‘ >> ~/.Xmodmap to add it to the .Xmodmap file and [...]

    xgl woes (shift+backspace) » Silentsolitude said this on at

  11. Thanks so much for this. My classmates were getting annoyed over my daily screaming every time I accidentally logged myself out.

    M Isaacson said this on at

  12. Thanks a lot, that helped sooo much!

    Rafael said this on at

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