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Re^3: The most useless key on my keyboard is:

by ambrus (Abbot)
on Nov 27, 2005 at 19:54 UTC ( [id://512039]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: The most useless key on my keyboard is:
in thread The most useless key on my keyboard is:

On the linux console, the loadkeys program loads a keymap. This program is part of the kbd package, and is usually invoked from an init script. Its input is a readable text file, which you can probably find if you follow the init scripts. You can also dump the keymap in this format with the dumpkeys utility.

On my Gentoo system, the keymaps are in the /usr/share/keymaps, and the default keymap is given in the /etc/rc.conf file. I've set this to my keymap which I've made by changing and existing keymap (this modified keymap predates my Gentoo system though, I have it from the time I've been using SuSE).

Here I include some relevant parts from the keymap file.

# 1=shift 2=altgr (caps really) 4=control 8=alt keymaps 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13 # plain, shift, hu, hu-s, ctrl, c-s, alt, a-s, a-c # .... alt_is_meta charset "iso-8859-2" # .... keycode 41 = grave shift keycode 41 = asciitilde control keycode 41 = nul control shift keycode 41 = nul altgr keycode 41 = +iacute altgr shift keycode 41 = +Iacute keycode 2 = one shift keycode 2 = exclam # ..... keycode 10 = nine shift keycode 10 = parenleft keycode 11 = zero shift keycode 11 = parenright altgr keycode 11 = +odiaeresis altgr shift keycode 11 = +Odiaeresis keycode 12 = minus shift keycode 12 = underscore control keycode 12 = Control_underscore control shift keycode 12 = Control_underscore altgr keycode 12 = +udiaeresis altgr shift keycode 12 = +Udiaeresis keycode 13 = equal shift keycode 13 = plus altgr keycode 13 = +oacute altgr shift keycode 13 = +Oacute keycode 14 = Delete keycode 15 = Tab shift keycode 15 = Tab control keycode 15 = Caps_Lock control shift keycode 15 = Caps_Lock alt keycode 15 = Tab alt shift keycode 15 = Tab alt control keycode 15 = Caps_Lock keycode 16 = q # .... keycode 26 = bracketleft shift keycode 26 = braceleft control keycode 26 = Escape control shift keycode 26 = Escape altgr keycode 26 = +odoubleacute altgr shift keycode 26 = +Odoubleacute keycode 27 = bracketright shift keycode 27 = braceright control keycode 27 = Control_bracketright control shift keycode 27 = Control_bracketright altgr keycode 27 = +uacute altgr shift keycode 27 = +Uacute keycode 28 = Return alt keycode 28 = Meta_Control_m keycode 58 = AltGr # <----- this is the key: we bind the caps lock key + to the altgr modifier keycode 30 = a # .... keycode 38 = l keycode 39 = semicolon shift keycode 39 = colon altgr keycode 39 = +eacute altgr shift keycode 39 = +Eacute keycode 40 = apostrophe shift keycode 40 = quotedbl control keycode 40 = Control_g control shift keycode 40 = Control_g altgr keycode 40 = +aacute altgr shift keycode 40 = +Aacute keycode 43 = backslash shift keycode 43 = bar control keycode 43 = Control_backslash control shift keycode 43 = Control_backslash altgr keycode 43 = +udoubleacute altgr shift keycode 43 = +Udoubleacute # ... keycode 29 = Control keycode 56 = Alt keycode 57 = space control keycode 57 = nul control shift keycode 57 = nul keycode 100 = Alt # right alt is Alt keycode 97 = Control # ....

The trickyer part is to get the keys right under X. I didn't do this part all alone, rather, I copied the configuration from a good friend and only done a couple of modifications on it. This configuration program loads a keymap with the xmodmap program (which should be on your system if you have X). I start this configuration program from my .xinitrc file so that it would start on every X session (depending on the X login manager, you may need to use a different file for this).

I show some parts of this configuration too.

HUtilde=doubleacute HUcircumflex=doubleacute xmodmap - <<EMAP ! .... keycode 19 = 0 parenright odiaeresis Odiaeresis keycode 20 = minus underscore udiaeresis Udiaeresis keycode 21 = equal plus oacute Oacute ! .... keycode 34 = bracketleft braceleft o$HUtilde O$HUtilde keycode 35 = bracketright braceright uacute Uacute ! .... keycode 47 = semicolon colon eacute Eacute keycode 48 = apostrophe quotedbl aacute Aacute keycode 49 = grave asciitilde iacute Iacute keycode 50 = Shift_L keycode 51 = backslash bar u$HUcircumflex U$HUcircumflex ! .... keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L keycode 66 = Mode_switch ! ^ the above is the key line: we bind the caps lock key ! .... keycode 113 = Alt_L Meta_R ! ... ! I have no idea what these mean: add shift = Shift_L Shift_R add control = Control_L Control_R Caps_Lock add mod1 = Alt_L Meta_L add mod2 = Mode_switch add mod2 = Num_Lock ! ... EMAP

(There are some other tricky details needed to set up X correctly to use national characters, but they aren't quite relevant to the caps-lock hack, so I won't show them here.)

For further information, see the manpages of the above mentioned utilities, and also http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/pts-console-hu-latest.tar.gz; http://www.madore.org/~david/linux/.

If anyone needs them, I can upload a copy of the exact config files I use.

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Re^4: The most useless key on my keyboard is:
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 28, 2005 at 12:48 UTC
    Thanks for such a quick reply and for the links, it is really helpfull.

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