Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:22:11 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Thaddeus J. Quintin" <quintin@ohio.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A question asked many times- Message-ID: <20030130092211.GA1262@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <000001c2c81a$546e60e0$0200a8c0@tjqathlonpc> References: <000001c2c81a$546e60e0$0200a8c0@tjqathlonpc>
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On 2003-01-29 23:44, "Thaddeus J. Quintin" <quintin@ohio.edu> wrote: > Greetings- > I've looked around in google and the FreeBSD archives and I've seen this > question asked many times, but never found the answer. > > I would like to map my "alt" keys to be "meta" keys. Is there any > reason why I shouldn't do that? Is there a better/different > solution? Using ESC just doesn't cut it... Copy the file /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd to a different name, like /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/local.kbd. Then open local.kbd with an editor and replace all instances of `lalt' with `meta' (without quotes). This will make the left ALT key work as META. Load the new keymap with: # kbdcontrol -l local.kbd To make "local.kbd" the default keymap at boot time, set keymap="local" in your /etc/rc.conf file. You can also map the right ALT key to META if you change `ralt' to `meta', but I don't suggest switching both left and right ALT keys to META since that would make switching consoles a bit difficult. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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