On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Carlos Konstanski wrote: > I just used xmodmap to remap a key. It works great in X. But not in the VGA > console. I tried editing the file in /usr/share/keymaps (Gentoo system) to > no avail. Is this the right place, but maybe I just wasn't doing it right? > Is there a tool similar to xev that works in non-X shells? Are the kexcodes > identical in X and non-X environments?
Carlos, Two different animals. For your consoles put this at the end of ~/.bash_profile: loadkeys ~/.keymap And, in my case, ~/,keymap contains [rshepard@salmo ~]$ less .keymap # Created 12 July 2002 by Rich Shepard # # Exchange the left Control key and the Caps Lock key on the keyboard keymaps 0-2,4-6,8-9,12 keycode 58 = Control keycode 29 = Caps_Lock Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
