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

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