In a message dated: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:34:51 EST
"Mansur, Warren" said:
>how can I make sure that the delete key will always work when I log in to
>the various machines? Is it something to do with stty?
Yes, usually 'stty -erase ^H' will do the trick, or 'stty -erase ^?'
>Also, while I'm at it, can someone point me to a good place to learn about re-
>mapping my keys to do something useful (Example: re-mapping CapsLock to Ctrl),
Well, for X, you can do this one of 2 ways:
- either set up the X server with the option:
XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps"
- use xmodmap
I have a script in my ~/bin dir that does:
swap-caps
#!/bin/sh
xmodmap $HOME/bin/swap-caps.xmodmap
swap-caps.xmodmap:
! Swap Caps_Lock & Control_L
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L
This was blatantly stolen from 'man xmodmap'
To swap caps and control on the console out side of X, man keymap.
I haven't done this in a long, long time, but I think what I did was
figure out which keymap was the default for my system, then copied it
to my home directory and edited it, swapping caps for control. Then
I added a clause to my .profile that said:
if [ console == 'tty' ]
then
use ~/my.keymap.gz
fi
obviously it's a little more complicated, but not much. I only did
this on my laptop, so I'll try and dig this out when I get home
tonight and repost exactly what I did.
> and even setting some of my keys to be 'macro' keys (Example: Hit F10 and
> then some long convoluded command gets executed that usually I have to type over
> and over)?
This is usually done through the window manager. I have Ctrl-X set
to launch an xterm, for example. Other things run scripts for me.
Hope that helps.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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...we don't need to be perfect to be the best around,
and we never stop trying to be better.
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