On 2004-04-13, Daniel Asarnow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My keyboard is a little messed up. There is no / and > ? key. What happened was that the key was acting > strangely and so I removed it. The little rubber > nipple under the key was flipped. I tried to flip it > over but eventually it just ripped. Now, that key has > no button over it and I use the / on my keypad and > copy/paste ?s. When I boot the computer, there is a > string of beeps caused by the no-longer-extant slash > key entering itself until I press any key. What I > would like to do is remap the keys so that my now > useless windoze logo key functions as a / and ? key. > I'm not sure how to do this, and have only been able > to find information on remapping keys in emacs, which > I don't use (and ?s are useful in things other than > text editors).
For X, there is xkeycaps (it's also the name of the debian package) and xmodmap (installed by xbase-clients), install it and read the documentation. I am not aware of anything like xkeycaps for the console, but you can always edit /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz by hand, which is what I ended up doing with my laptop keyboard. Research what each keypress gets translated as with showkeys --keymap (showkeys works *only* in the console, not under X). Save your file somewhere and do loadkeys kmap-file. When you are happy and nothing is broken (you don't want to end up with a kernel which boots up an unusable keymap!), you can copy it to /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz, and then remember doing dpkg-reconfigure console-common and select the "don't touch keymap" option (or something like that), otherwise each update of console-common will overwrite your custom keymap. Hope that helps -- Ivan Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
