On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:56:39PM +0530, newlxuser wrote: > >Most programs once installed, run the same for ALL distros. > >Configurations and other things can change the look-and-feel. > >But all of them are very much alterable. It is much better to > >change personal configurations in dot and rc files. > > 1) Now since you said it, can we re-map the keys or exchange > the key-bindings with each other ? Say function keys F2 to F3 > etc ? Perticularly, in my above mentioned problem of "Desi" > editor, without having access to the source code? >
This is a tricky issue but can be done by running the app under a script wrapper wherein you change a key pair (F2 and F3 in your case) with setkeycodes and loadkeys, and reset them back to normal when the application quits. It is difficult to patch a binary.Binary edit will do it if you know the place to change !!! Very difficult though ... > > Is there any facility in Linux to develop memory-resident pro- > grams ? ( as in DOS ) > This TSR concept is purely DOS. Under *nix most programs can be run as a daemon ... with the "&" suffix. > > 2) One of the keyboard keys - main "Enter" key on one of my > old keyboards, is not working properly. I am presently using > Num key-pad's "Enter" key. There is a "turbo" key below my > main "Enter" key, which is use-less in Linux ( at least for > me ). Can I re-assign or re-map it as "Enter" key ? > Yes you can. There are two methods: a) Recompile kernel with requisite patches hand coded so that the changes are permanent. b) Use the kbd package.It has utils like dumpkeys, getkeycodes, showkey, loadkeys etc. Too long to place here. Do some RTFM on kbd utils ... HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Sysadmin utils (add / delete groups) LOST #108 To add or delete new groups on your system, as root, use the utilities groupadd and groupdel ... Note in some distros it is addgroup and delgroup. GID and group needs specification. Syntax: "groupadd -g gid group" AND "groupdel group" ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
