Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-03-01 Thread Daniel Dalton
> For instance, in my case, I had written a file > /etc/udev/keymaps/apple-aluminum containing: > > 0x70035 86 # Left to z: 102nd (providing backslash bar) > 0x70064 grave # Left to 1: grave notsign > 0x70068 insert # F13 > > for the remappings I needed. The first number is the scan code,

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-03-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-03-01 14:49:09 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:38:23AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2013-03-01 12:07:07 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > I've ran showkeys and found that the fn key has a key code. > > > > > > However, when I do fn+j for example only the f

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 12:09:53PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:56:29AM +0100, Paul Seyfert wrote: > > I only know of thinkpads having ctrl and fn swapped wrt. other vendors. > > As explained these are hard/impossible to swap in software which is why > > the bios of thin

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:38:23AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > 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 the

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
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.

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:56:29AM +0100, Paul Seyfert wrote: > I only know of thinkpads having ctrl and fn swapped wrt. other vendors. > As explained these are hard/impossible to swap in software which is why > the bios of thinkpads offer the possibility to do this. > > Therefore I recommend, loo

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
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 no

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-02-28 14:21:30 +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 09:09 +, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Is it possible to make the fn key act as a control key inside of linux? > > (I'd like to keep the functions of the fn key combinations if > > possible). > > Are the keys recognised? Ha

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Harvey Kelly
> On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 09:09 +, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Is it possible to make the fn key act as a control key inside of linux? > (I'd like to keep the functions of the fn key combinations if > possible). Are the keys recognised? Have you checked? When you run this command: xev | grep -A2 --

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Paul Seyfert
Hi, On 28.02.2013 11:19, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 09:09 +, Daniel Dalton wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I recently bought a new laptop. >> >> Annoyingly the laptop function key is where you'd expect the control key >> and the control key is one key in from the left.

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:19:38AM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Annoyingly the laptop function key is where you'd expect the control key > and the control key is one key in from the left. > > Is it possible to make the fn key act as a control key inside of linux? > (I'd like to keep

Re: Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 09:09 +, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > I recently bought a new laptop. > > Annoyingly the laptop function key is where you'd expect the control key > and the control key is one key in from the left. > > Is it possible to make the fn key act as a control key ins

Keyboard remapping

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I recently bought a new laptop. Annoyingly the laptop function key is where you'd expect the control key and the control key is one key in from the left. Is it possible to make the fn key act as a control key inside of linux? (I'd like to keep the functions of the fn key combinations if p

keyboard remapping (repost)

2007-12-23 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings. I'm running Debian unstable on AMD64. My keyboard map is portuguese, it has deadkeys. In particular, the ^ key. If i press ^ and e, i'll get ê. I'd like to do the same with 6 other letters and there are 3 ways. - The correct one, where ^+letter would result in that same letter with ^ -

Re: keyboard remapping

2007-12-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 08:10:24PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm running Debian unstable on AMD64. I have X and (for the time > being), GNOME. My locales are en_US.UTF-8, although i'd rather they > were pt_PT.UTF-8 by default. My keyboard map is portuguese, it has > deadkeys. I

keyboard remapping

2007-12-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings. I'm running Debian unstable on AMD64. I have X and (for the time being), GNOME. My locales are en_US.UTF-8, although i'd rather they were pt_PT.UTF-8 by default. My keyboard map is portuguese, it has deadkeys. In particular, the ^ key. If i press ^ and e, i'll get ê. I'd like to do the