chrisa@beldar.ma30.bull.com (Chris Anderson) (10/16/90)
Being a user of several computers, all of which have their CONTROL key where the Iris puts its CAPSLOCK and vice versa, I would be most grateful to discover a hack for my user.ps (or whatever) which would permit them to be exchanged. For that matter, swapping ESC and ~` wouldn't be a bad idea either. Does such a thing exist? Could someone reveal the Magic Incantation that will untangle my fingers? Regards, Chris Anderson chrisa@beldar.ma30.bull.com
jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) (10/17/90)
Being a user of several computers, all of which have their CONTROL key where the Iris puts its CAPSLOCK and vice versa, I would be most grateful to discover a hack for my user.ps (or whatever) which would permit them to be exchanged. I don't know about NeWS, but under X, just about any keyboard reconfiguration you want can be done with xmodmap. "xmodmap -pk" prints out the full keyboard table. See xmodmap(1) for more details. Here are some possibilities # clear the lock keys xmodmap -e 'clear lock' # make caps lock another control key xmodmap -e 'add control = Caps_Lock' # change backspace key to send delete/backspace xmodmap -e 'keycode 66 = Delete BackSpace' #change `/~ key to send escape/~ xmodmap -e 'keycode 60 = Escape asciitilde' #change <esc> key to send `/~ xmodmap -e 'keycode 12 = grave asciitilde' Jim Helman Department of Applied Physics Durand 012 Stanford University FAX: (415) 725-3377 (jim@KAOS.stanford.edu) Work: (415) 723-9127
ken@msc.EDU (Ken Chin-Purcell) (10/17/90)
Chris Anderson writes: |> Could someone reveal the Magic Incantation... /replacekeys { % origkeyvals_array changedkeyvals_array -> - { /changedvals exch def /origvals exch def /keysdict origvals length dict def keysdict begin 0 1 origvals length 1 sub { dup origvals exch get changedvals 3 2 roll get def } for end createevent dup begin /Name origvals def /Priority 2 def /Exclusivity true def end expressinterest { awaitevent dup dup begin /Name get keysdict exch get /Name exch def end redistributeevent } loop } fork pop pop pop } def % lcap ctrl [ 28420 ] [ 28419 ] replacekeys -- -- Ken