Super_L not working in i3

[Super-Nathan]

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

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super@EVE ~> xmodmap -e 'keycode 125 = Super_L' && xmodmap -pke > ~/.Xmodmap
then in my ~/.xinitrc I wrote this

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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.

[towo]

dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

coose another key for compose instead of the left win-key.

[timc]

Also see http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=2475

Tim

[Super-Nathan]

I just got used to using alt instead of the win key