How to remap a Media key which wrongly restarts the X server

[ThePhi]

Hi!
I've got a Logitech K200 Keyboard with 8 media keys at the top. Among them, the raising and lowering volume buttons are working great by default, but some of them, like the one with the calculator icon, do not.
For example, the one with the calculator restarts the X server!

So it was very difficult to find which keycode was linked to that key (since it immediately restarts the X server)... but I managed to do that by using a non-GUI environment (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and running `showkey`. Thus, I found that the keycode linked to that key was 140.
How can I remap this key then?
I can't use the GUI settings because it tells me to press the key to bind, and then it restarts the X server, as noted above!

I tried xmodmap with .Xmodmap like this:
`keycode 140 = XF86AudioMute` as a test (I got a mute media key and I already know that this XF86 action is working).
But it still restarts the X server!

Thanks

[Koentje]

If you try this example on the terminal, does that work?
xmodmap -e "keycode 140 = Delete"

btw, have you tried xev > ~/xev.dump and see what the last keypress was in the file?

[ThePhi]

Thanks for your answer.
No, it doesn't change anything, the key still restarts X.

This is the dump from xev: The key doesn't seem to be recorded, because the X server restarts even before it can write to the file (that's my guess).
But I already know that the key has keycode 140 as I mentioned in the post above.

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