key mapping

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen

i kept coming across xmodmap, but no one was saying anything about xev
=) that's helps thanks!

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