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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:41:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: caps-lock/ctrl exchange
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807291639480.24795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199807292112.OAA19686@bogslab.ucdavis.edu>

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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Greg Shenaut wrote:

> This may be a very dumb question, but I haven't been able to find
> the answer to it.  I have several computers with the traditional
> ctrl-next-to-A layout, and an increasing number with the bogus
> but IBM-mandated ctrl-lost-somewhere-down-next-to-the-space-bar
> layout, some of which are laptops so that I cannot just use an
> alternate keyboard.  There *must* be a way to swap these keys in
> a way that will work with the standard console as well as with X
> windows.  Could someone please tell me how to do it?  (A compile
> time flag would be fine, a sysctl variable even better, an ioctl
> on the kbd device would be best.)

Yeah, there is an alternate keyboard map for that.  Doing it with X is
different but doable (I think it's made very easy with the XKB extension,
a XF86Config option or something). For the system console hack one of the
keymaps in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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