Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:41:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: caps-lock/ctrl exchange Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807291639480.24795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199807292112.OAA19686@bogslab.ucdavis.edu>
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Greg Shenaut wrote: > This may be a very dumb question, but I haven't been able to find > the answer to it. I have several computers with the traditional > ctrl-next-to-A layout, and an increasing number with the bogus > but IBM-mandated ctrl-lost-somewhere-down-next-to-the-space-bar > layout, some of which are laptops so that I cannot just use an > alternate keyboard. There *must* be a way to swap these keys in > a way that will work with the standard console as well as with X > windows. Could someone please tell me how to do it? (A compile > time flag would be fine, a sysctl variable even better, an ioctl > on the kbd device would be best.) Yeah, there is an alternate keyboard map for that. Doing it with X is different but doable (I think it's made very easy with the XKB extension, a XF86Config option or something). For the system console hack one of the keymaps in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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