From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 15 06:04:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 640431065674 for ; Sat, 15 May 2010 06:04:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B508FC14 for ; Sat, 15 May 2010 06:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4F642dH010643; Fri, 14 May 2010 23:04:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 14 May 2010 23:04:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 23:04:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20100515060400.GB35551@thought.org> References: <20100510214306.GA43621@thought.org> <20100514050047.GA17489@thought.org> <20100514154722.9168dd04.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100514154722.9168dd04.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, GUARANTEED_100_PERCENT,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on ethic.thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FWIW, a datapoint. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 06:04:10 -0000 On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:47:22PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:00:47 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > well, still same on my laptop after days of trying to fix the > > "thinkpad keyboard" that made the box all but unusable. xev > > thinks the caps lock is a left control key. i have given > > up for now. {yes, having flash is a feature and/or a > > surprise, but not quite doing w/out the capslock!} > > Within the last few days, there was a message on this list > about how to use xmodmap to change this. People often use > xmodmap to turn Caps Lock into left Ctrl, but it can be > done in reverse, too. See the near-time archives for an > occurance of xmodmap, this may help you, and maybe work > both on PC-BSD as well as on regular FreeBSD (allthough > it might be that KDE does many things on its own and doesn't > care for "low level settings" such as xmodmap). At this > point, it may be useful to point out that KDE might have > its very own keyboard setup controls - check them to find > out if you can re-assign the keys within KDE. > i already use xmodmap to turn some of my unused junk keys into ESC keys. since my fingers know vi without thinking about it and because the Real ESC key is =way= far away. blah * 3. on the pcbsd forum is an example of what you mention above; it is different than how i was taught, but that's not a big deal. i think kde4 Still has months and revs to go in some places. there aer things i like about the desktop. that it is the most "friendly" [or considerable] of those who have some kind of physical disability. further, kde4 does not seem afraid to venture where other managers have not gone. if kde has its own keyboard setup config, i sure blew it when i did the original installation. ... . -g i will google up the xmodmap stuff ... it might be easier to salvage pcbsd .... > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel