Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 00:02:40 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Subject: Re: Mapping Control-Delete to BackSpace Message-ID: <20080808220240.GK27033@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <4896F8AE.6020302@icyb.net.ua> References: <20080719224711.GM39074@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <4896F8AE.6020302@icyb.net.ua>
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Hi Andriy,
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 03:40:14PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 20/07/2008 01:47 Jeremie Le Hen said the following:
> > Hi there!
> >
> > Please Cc: me when replying.
> >
> > The backspace key on my laptop is dead. I'd like to map Control-Delete
> > to BackSpace using xmodmap(1). It's straightforward to do for
> > Shift-Delete, but I can't figure out how to do so for Control-Delete.
> >
> > Any help would be welcome.
>
> Not sure about xmodmap but you can modify your
> /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc to have the following definition for
> Delete key:
>
> key <DELE> { type="PC_CONTROL_LEVEL2", [ Delete, BackSpace ] };
>
> You can do more research on XKB configuration and how to do the above in
> non-intrusive way.
> The key thing here is you need to change type of Delete key to
> control-modifiable.
Thank you very much! I didn't know that xkb was that mighty! :)
For the records, I've create a new keyboard layout like this:
% jarjarbinks:~:143# cat /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/jarjarbinks
% partial default alphanumeric_keys
% xkb_symbols "basic" {
% include "fr"
% key <DELE> {
% type= "PC_CONTROL_LEVEL2",
% symbols[Group1]= [ Delete, BackSpace ]
% };
% };
%
Best regards,
--
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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