From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 14:48:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 898CE14FA6 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:48:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 149 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2000 22:48:06 -0000 Received: from userae76.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.131.218) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 2000 22:48:06 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA02245; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:48:03 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:48:03 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Vivek Khera Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X keymapping Message-ID: <20000104224803.H352@marder-1> References: <14450.10100.495300.372549@onceler.kcilink.com> <20000104220745.F352@marder-1> <14450.29762.888402.877973@onceler.kcilink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <14450.29762.888402.877973@onceler.kcilink.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 05:29:22PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "MO" == Mark Ovens writes: > > MO> Similarly, some keyboards have an Alt key but no Meta key. > MO> In that case the following may be useful: > > MO> % xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L" > > MO> Guess you can just substitute ``R'' for ``L'' to do the other key. > > Unfortunatley, all this manages to do is kill the existing Meta key, > so I have none. Thanks for the suggestion, though. > > Is there some way to modify the microsoft keyboard geometry file under > X11 to swap these keys? I don't see exactly how that file works. > Firstly, do you have the line XkbModel "microsoft" uncommented in /etc/XF86Config? Also, are you saying that the "Windows" key is Meta_L by default? If so then does: xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L" xmodmap -e "keysym Meta_L = Alt_L Meta_L" not swap them? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message