Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 23:04:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FWIW, a datapoint. Message-ID: <20100515060400.GB35551@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20100514154722.9168dd04.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20100510214306.GA43621@thought.org> <hsa0vj$nc9$1@dough.gmane.org> <20100514050047.GA17489@thought.org> <20100514154722.9168dd04.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:47:22PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:00:47 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> > well, still same on my laptop after days of trying to fix the
> > "thinkpad keyboard" that made the box all but unusable. xev
> > thinks the caps lock is a left control key. i have given
> > up for now. {yes, having flash is a feature and/or a
> > surprise, but not quite doing w/out the capslock!}
>
> Within the last few days, there was a message on this list
> about how to use xmodmap to change this. People often use
> xmodmap to turn Caps Lock into left Ctrl, but it can be
> done in reverse, too. See the near-time archives for an
> occurance of xmodmap, this may help you, and maybe work
> both on PC-BSD as well as on regular FreeBSD (allthough
> it might be that KDE does many things on its own and doesn't
> care for "low level settings" such as xmodmap). At this
> point, it may be useful to point out that KDE might have
> its very own keyboard setup controls - check them to find
> out if you can re-assign the keys within KDE.
>
i already use xmodmap to turn some of my unused junk keys
into ESC keys. since my fingers know vi without thinking
about it and because the Real ESC key is =way= far away.
blah * 3. on the pcbsd forum is an example of what you
mention above; it is different than how i was taught, but
that's not a big deal.
i think kde4 Still has months and revs to go in some places.
there aer things i like about the desktop. that it is the
most "friendly" [or considerable] of those who have some kind
of physical disability. further, kde4 does not seem afraid
to venture where other managers have not gone.
if kde has its own keyboard setup config, i sure blew it when
i did the original installation. ... .
-g
i will google up the xmodmap stuff ... it might be easier to
salvage pcbsd ....
>
>
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> Polytropon
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