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  Customizing your keyboard experience RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 12:30 +0000
    Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-31 13:27 +0000
      Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-31 15:07 +0000
        Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-31 17:26 +0300
          Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-31 14:37 +0000
        Re: Customizing your keyboard experience RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 14:29 +0000
        Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-31 15:35 +0100
    Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-01 21:14 +0000
    Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-04-03 11:37 +0200

#2158 — Customizing your keyboard experience

From the «panic button top right» department:
Title: Toggle keyboard keys in Linux using terminal commands
Author: bob@lxer.com
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 13:45:15 -0400
Link: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=200358

It is easier to use GUI tools to setup keyboard shortcuts, but sometimes you
need to map certain keys for typical purpose (e.g swapping caps and esc when
using vim). In this tutorial I will try to list different linux tools that
you can use to do these tasks (you might have to install them from the
repository.

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#2159

On 2014-03-31, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> From the «panic button top right» department:
> Title: Toggle keyboard keys in Linux using terminal commands
> Author: bob@lxer.com
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 13:45:15 -0400
> Link: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=200358
>
> It is easier to use GUI tools to setup keyboard shortcuts, but sometimes you
> need to map certain keys for typical purpose (e.g swapping caps and esc when
> using vim). In this tutorial I will try to list different linux tools that
> you can use to do these tasks (you might have to install them from the
> repository.

#!/bin/bash

# Caps lock can only be set/unset with Shift/CapsLock
#
if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]
then
	xmodmap -e "clear lock"
	xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = NoSymbol Caps_Lock"
	xmodmap -e "add lock = Caps_Lock"
fi



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                 automatically and without pity.”

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#2161

In article <bpt8pnFacqrU1@mid.individual.net>, Huge
<Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2014-03-31, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> > From the «panic button top right» department:
> > Title: Toggle keyboard keys in Linux using terminal commands
> > Author: bob@lxer.com
> > Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 13:45:15 -0400
> > Link: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=200358
> >
> > It is easier to use GUI tools to setup keyboard shortcuts, but sometimes you
> > need to map certain keys for typical purpose (e.g swapping caps and esc when
> > using vim). In this tutorial I will try to list different linux tools that
> > you can use to do these tasks (you might have to install them from the
> > repository.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> # Caps lock can only be set/unset with Shift/CapsLock
> #
> if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]
> then
>    xmodmap -e "clear lock"
>    xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = NoSymbol Caps_Lock"
>    xmodmap -e "add lock = Caps_Lock"
> fi

No need to fart about like this. Just go into:

  System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard

and click the Modifier Keys button The dropdown that appears will allow
you set set what the Caps Lock, CTRL, Option, and Command keys do.
Simples.

-- 
"Once you adopt the unix paradigm, the variants cease to be a problem - you
bitch, of course, but that's because bitching is fun, unlike M$ OS's, where 
bitching is required to keep your head from exploding." - S Stremler in afc

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#2164

Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net>:

>>    xmodmap -e "clear lock"
>>    xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = NoSymbol Caps_Lock"
>>    xmodmap -e "add lock = Caps_Lock"
>
> No need to fart about like this. Just go into:
>
>  System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard

I have customized my keyboard for multiple languages and moved some
punctuation around. I don't know of a better way to do that than
.Xmodmap. For example:

   AltGr + c -> ĉ

   AltGr + x -> š

   AltGr + - -> —

   AltGr + ! -> ¡

   AltGr + a -> א


Marko

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#2167

On 2014-03-31, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net>:
>
>>>    xmodmap -e "clear lock"
>>>    xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = NoSymbol Caps_Lock"
>>>    xmodmap -e "add lock = Caps_Lock"
>>
>> No need to fart about like this. Just go into:
>>
>>  System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard

Except, AFICS, that doesn't do what I want.

And running an xmodmap automatically at login is hardly "farting about".

-- 
Today is Setting Orange, the 17th day of Discord in the YOLD 3180
“Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime;
 the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out
                 automatically and without pity.”

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#2165

On 2014-03-31, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> In article <bpt8pnFacqrU1@mid.individual.net>, Huge
><Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-03-31, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> No need to fart about like this. Just go into:
>
>   System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard
>
> and click the Modifier Keys button The dropdown that appears will
> allow you set set what the Caps Lock, CTRL, Option, and Command keys
> do.  Simples.
>

One man's farting around is another man's making sure it works
regardless of which desktop environment he's using.  On a SUSE box I
even figured out how to do the CapsLock/Control switch on the console,
though I forget now how I did it.  It's nice customizing and little
scripts like that are easily bound to keys in most environments.

There are some good OS X programs that allow finegrained keyboard
modifications though I was too cheap to buy them.  On Unix/Linux
obviously the sky's the limit ...  

When I was writing a book I made a backup script and bound it in
Windowmaker to F12.  With one keypress I could backup the right files,
zip it, and send copies to different backup devices.  I was really happy
with how it worked out.

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#2166

On 31/03/14 16:07, Tim Streater wrote:
> No need to fart about like this. Just go into:
>
>   System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard
>
> and click the Modifier Keys button The dropdown that appears will allow
> you set set what the Caps Lock, CTRL, Option, and Command keys do.
> Simples.
>

I use xfce4. ^^ doesn't work.

I prefer the "core approach" for making sure stuff stays working - 
especially across window managers :)

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#2194

On 2014-03-31, RS Wood wrote:
> It is easier to use GUI tools to setup keyboard shortcuts, but sometimes you
> need to map certain keys for typical purpose (e.g swapping caps and esc when
> using vim).

The day I figured out how to use xmodmap to make caps do esc made
using vim sooo much easier.

Sometimes my trackpad starts misbehaving and jumping around
everywhere.  My solution is 'sudo modprobe -r psmouse' until it
feels like behaving itself again.

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#2231

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:

> From the «panic button top right» department:
> Title: Toggle keyboard keys in Linux using terminal commands
> Author: bob@lxer.com
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 13:45:15 -0400
> Link: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=200358
>
> It is easier to use GUI tools to setup keyboard shortcuts, but sometimes you
> need to map certain keys for typical purpose (e.g swapping caps and esc when
> using vim). In this tutorial I will try to list different linux tools that
> you can use to do these tasks (you might have to install them from the
> repository.

That only deals with X11, though. For the Linux console, here's how I
exchange Escape and CapsLock:

#-----------------------------------------------------------
		keycode 1	= Caps_Lock
		keycode 58	= Escape           Escape
Alt     	keycode 58	= Meta_Escape
#-----------------------------------------------------------

Put that into a file and load it with `loadkeys'. Keycodes might vary,
depending on your keyboard layout. Find out the correct keycodes using
`showkey'.

-- 
> cat /etc/slackware-version && uname -mprs
Slackware 14.0
Linux 3.12.0-dn i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36

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