Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:48:03 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X keymapping Message-ID: <20000104224803.H352@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <14450.29762.888402.877973@onceler.kcilink.com> References: <14450.10100.495300.372549@onceler.kcilink.com> <20000104220745.F352@marder-1> <14450.29762.888402.877973@onceler.kcilink.com>
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 05:29:22PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote:
> >>>>> "MO" == Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> writes:
>
> MO> Similarly, some keyboards have an Alt key but no Meta key.
> MO> In that case the following may be useful:
>
> MO> % xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L"
>
> MO> Guess you can just substitute ``R'' for ``L'' to do the other key.
>
> Unfortunatley, all this manages to do is kill the existing Meta key,
> so I have none. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
>
> Is there some way to modify the microsoft keyboard geometry file under
> X11 to swap these keys? I don't see exactly how that file works.
>
Firstly, do you have the line
XkbModel "microsoft"
uncommented in /etc/XF86Config?
Also, are you saying that the "Windows" key is Meta_L by default? If
so then does:
xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L"
xmodmap -e "keysym Meta_L = Alt_L Meta_L"
not swap them?
>
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