Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:32:46 -0500 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <metcalf@snet.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Can users customize their keyboard mappings? Message-ID: <19980126173246.37663@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <000b01bd27aa$b60757a0$a40b3ccc@metcaljm_home.res.utc.com>; from Jeffrey M. Metcalf on Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 09:57:52PM -0500 References: <000b01bd27aa$b60757a0$a40b3ccc@metcaljm_home.res.utc.com>
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Jeffrey M. Metcalf:
|I am sure that there must be a way for users to
|customize their keyboard mappings. It is obvious
|from rc.conf that global keyboard mappings can be
|set with kbdcontrol, but I was hoping somebody could
|tell me the best way for users to remap the keyboard
|settings for their and only their shells.
|
|Specifically, I would like to have the global keyboard
|mapping set to the US standard (QWERTY), but some of
|my users want to set theirs to DVORAK. Any ideas?
|I'm running FreeBSD-2.2.2.
I'm no keyboard-remapping GURU. I only remap two keys on my keyboard in
both X and on the syscons console. So I'll just pass on what I did.
For X, in .xinitrc:
> xmodmap - << EOF
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L
EOF
For syscons, copy /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd somewhere, make
these mods:
< 029 lctrl lctrl lctrl lctrl lctrl lctrl lctrl lctrl O
> 029 clock clock clock clock clock clock clock clock O
< 058 clock clock clock clock clock clock clock clock O
> 058 lctrl lctrl lctrl lctrl lctrl lctrl lctrl lctrl O
And then point keymap="..." to it in rc.conf.
You mention dvorak. Just browsing here, I see that there are us.dvorak.kbd
and us.dvorakx.kbd keymaps in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps, in addition to
the standard us.iso.kbd.
So to satisfy your users, what it sounds like you want is a default set
of kbdcontrols/xmodmaps in the global profile (shell startup scripts for
console or xinitrc for X), and user-overrides in their local profiles
(shell startup scripts or .xinitrc for X).
Randall
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