On Saturday 04 October 2003 06.43, Matt Price wrote: > |hey folks, > | > |trying to customize my german keyboard to work the way I want it > |to. Mostly I want to switch the y and z keys so I can touchtype. I > |found that the mac family of keymaps doesn't work for me at all -- > |maybe they're for a different generation of keyboards -- but the i386 > |maps work pretty well. So now I'm using the de-latin1 keymap with the > |z and y keys switched around. So that's fine. BUt I can't figure out > |how to define the apple keys as "mode-switch" keys, so I can access > |the 3rd and 4th keycodes in the keymap table. So for instance, rightn > |ow I can't type "@" or "|" from the console. > | > |Looking around at the keymaps, I figure I need a key like > | > |keycode 100 = AltGr or something. > | > |bu: > | > |1) -- not sure whether I need AltGr or some other value in that statement > |2) -- I can't figure out how to identify the scancode of these keys. > |Is there a trick to doing that? > |
Try using the command 'showkey' and 'xev' to examine the codes sent by the keyboard. > |also... I would love to synchronize the keyboards in X and the > |console, instead of having to customize them both separately. Is > |there a way to do this? > | Perl can be used to write a transformer that is feed with output from 'xmodmap -pke', and produce an almost complete console keymap. However, you probably need to handle some special cases anyway. > |thanks as usual, > | > |matt -- ------------------------------------------------------- Anders L�vgren -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
