key mapping

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Nov 3 17:27:07 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:22:49PM -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> How do I remap keys under X (on my keyboard), there is a way to view
> the keycode, i forget what that app is called, and where best to remap
> the keys so my change takes when i log in?
> 
> i tried google and can't find a how to,

man xmodmap

Applications work based on KEYSYMNAMEs and the keyboard generates
keycodes.  xmodmap sets up the mapping from keycodes to keysyms.

xev is handy to determine the keycode of a given key and what it currently
generates as a keysym.

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