In i3 I generally prefer to have my windows key (mod4) as my i3-mod key.
In my config file I set the mod to mod4, but nothing happens. I went to a console and did a showkey to see what keycode my win-key was assigned. After I printed the xmodmap i found that it was not mapped correctly so i did a super@EVE ~> xmodmap -e 'keycode 125 = Super_L' && xmodmap -pke > ~/.Xmodmap
then in my ~/.xinitrc I wrote this if [ -f $HOME/.Xmodmap ]; then
/usr/bin/xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap
fi to ensure that it stays changed.
After a reboot I set i3 mod key back to mod4 but it still does nothing. the output of xmodmap -pke and xmodmap -pm is available here (I am not allowed to attach a .txt file to the forum!) http://pibanglinux.org/pastebin/help.txt
Right now mod is set to mod1 (alt) but i would like to change it.
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
coose another key for compose instead of the left win-key.
Also see http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=2475
Tim
I just got used to using alt instead of the win key