* On 2024 04 Feb 11:57 -0600, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> On 4 Feb 2024 11:36 -0600, from n...@n0nb.us (Nate Bargmann):
> >> Unicomp[1] still makes these keyboards, and you can get them for USB.
> > 
> > I don't like their swapping of the right Alt and Menu keys unless the
> > keyboard can be configured to swap them back.
> 
> The keyboard doesn't care what's printed on the key caps; that should
> be purely a software configuration issue.
> 
> If you contact them and ask, they can probably tell you whether the
> key caps are of identical size for the two keys you have in mind for
> the particular keyboard configuration you're interested in, and thus
> can be flipped physically. Past that I expect it involves some Xmodmap
> trickery (or maybe treachery) to flip the mapping of the scan codes.

xmodmap trickery?  I am running GNOME on Wayland.  Maybe this
combination has a way to remap keys but that's not something I've been
inclined to do.  The daskeyboard suits me fine and I plan to just stick
with it.

- Nate

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