chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (06/28/89)
In article <8906280329.AA25279@cscwam.UMD.EDU> stripes@wam.UMD.EDU writes: >I feed it this file which changes the <> keys as well as changeing the >big "X in a Triangle like thing" key where the backspace belongs into >a backspace (I use many termanls, and the VAXstation is the only one >with a easy to find Delete key, so I set stty erase ^H...) feel free >to change any or all of it... >keycode 237 = period greater >keycode 232 = comma less >keycode 188 = BackSpace Delete I use something somewhat different on the LK201 (`the Keyboard from Hell'). Here is my .Xkeys file for the DS3100: clear Lock ! the following attempt to put caps lock on F20 does not work !add Lock = F20 keysym quoteleft = Escape keysym Delete = quoteleft asciitilde ! the following is peculiar to the LK201 keycode 140 = Delete ! fix DECism keycode 177 = Meta_L This gets rid of caps lock entirely (I want `caps lock' keys to be almost as hard to hit as power switches), puts ESC on the key labelled ~` (which happens to be where ESC would be on a proper keyboard), puts tilde and backquote on the <X| key (which is in the right area), and puts DEL on the `remove' key. As it happens, I always type control-H for backspace rather than reaching for a `BACK SPACE' key, so this works, despite the keyboard missing one key in the righthand side of the main group. (Oh, for a way to move the abominable `<>' key out of the way of SHIFT....) The last line removes the special meaning from the `compose' key, making it a pure meta key. I do not like the mashing-together of the `composition' key (used to get at eighth-bit characters) and the `meta' key (used in X11 to make mouse button act globally). For whatever reasons, X11 on our DS3100s already has shifted , and . as < and >, so I did not have to fix those. I would pay up to several hundred dollars *out of my own pocket* for a sane plug-in replacement for the LK201. How the Keyboard from Hell was ever selected as `ergonomic' is beyond me. Perhaps secretarial typists were used to shifted `,' and `.' producing `,' and `.'; but how could they be happy with a key that *prevents* normal shifting? If a separate key had to be introduced for `<>', why not put it in the `miscellaneous' cluster on the right with `\|'? And why move tilde and backquote to where ESC should be?---not that secretarial typists used to electric typewriters would ever use ESC: but neither would they use tilde and backquote. DEC must never have tried the LK201 on computer programmers. (`Why should we? No programmer would ever use DEC equipment.'---well, maybe not any more, now that all DEC equipment comes with this abomination.) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris