Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 18:27:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com> To: lsmarso@panix.com (Larry S. Marso) Cc: bmc@WillsCreek.COM, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x11 app that configures keyboard Message-ID: <199710142327.SAA05582@d2si.com> In-Reply-To: <19971012203554.65118@panix.com> from "Larry S. Marso" at "Oct 12, 97 08:35:54 pm"
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Larry S. Marso said: > Yes, thanks, that's it. However, the xkeycaps utility is blind where win95 > specialty keys are concerned. I'd like to put them to use in FreeBSD. The > xev utility gives me some of the information I'd need, I suppose. Is there > any more illuminating documentation (beyond the man files) for xmodmap > that would assist me in writing an appropriate xmodmap file? Or could > anyone volunteer their tailored xmodmap file? Thank you. > > -- > Larry S. Marso > lsmarso@panix.com > > xmodmap(1) really isn't that hard to use---here's a little shell script I worked out to remap the Window keys to Escape and the menu key to backspace: #!/bin/sh xmodmap -e 'keycode 115 = Escape' xmodmap -e 'keycode 116 = BackSpace' xmodmap -e 'keycode 117 = Escape' xmodmap -pke prints the current mapping in expressions which should give you plenty of examples. The keycodes may change on different equipment so you should check them with xev(1). I'd guess that your FreeBSD/intel system acts just like mine, but a Linux/intel system probably would be different.
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