Hi,
Thanks for your information. It Gave me lot of information about key bindings.
A.Saravanan
> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:11:36 +0530
> Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Key Bindings
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Bharathi
> Subramanian<[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Can you Tell how to create customized key bindings in linux
> >> terminal. For example i have run a "ls -l" when pressing F1 Key in
> >> terminal.
> >
> > Read man loadkeys
> >
>
> Thanks Bharathi. I read the manpages and had to spend time
> searching the Internet till I got halfway. I could get F5 to
> print a string.
>
> But I wanted enter also to be pressed. Then I saw this page.
>
> http://www.hermann-uwe.de/tips-and-tricks/showkey-loadkeys-tricks
>
> It is not so obvious what to do. This page also helped me.
>
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-15.html
>
> This is what I did.
>
> You cannot set a new keymap unless you are root. It is obvious
> but not mentioned anywhere.
>
> So this is what I did.
>
> Login as root.
>
> # dumpkeys > keys.map
>
> # vim keys.map
>
> In this case you want to search for a line like this,
>
> string F1 = "\033[[A"
>
> It occurs in line number 662 in my case. I am sure it is going to
> be the same in yours too.
>
> Set it to
>
> string F1 = "\033[[ls -l\n"
>
> Then load the new keymap.
>
> # loadkeys keys.map
>
> Then go to a different virtual console , login as yourself and
> press 'F1'.
>
> Voila. It now works!
>
> But you have to be logged in of course. ;)
>
> Obviously this done not work in xterms. I never got that to work.
>
> That is a separate project involving a different set of programs I think.
>
> -Girish
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