On 2013-03-01 12:07:07 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:36:24PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > /lib/udev/keymap is probably better, though it is buggy. > > Ok, so I haven't made any changes in there yet. > > I've ran showkeys and found that the fn key has a key code. > > However, when I do fn+j for example only the fn key code is noted.
What if you start showkeys in scan code dump mode? > While if I press the actual control key on the keyboard + j I see that > both key codes are recognised. > > Does this ultimately mean that fn can't be used as a control key? I'd say that you have to try. > In addition to this I've discovered that my keyboard does not have an > application key or a right windows key (the key you press to get a > context menu in a gui).... It is the equivalent of right clicking > basically. Since I'm blind and I can't use a mouse this key is kind of > important. How could I bind right alt to act as this key? If you want to do this only for this keyboard (not for some USB keyboard that you would connect), you can use /lib/udev/keymap to map the scancode of the key to the wanted keycode (I don't have such a key, so I don't know). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130301023823.ga5...@xvii.vinc17.org
