Possibly converting 900 workstations to linux :), I just need to know...

[Quaggoth]

how to load a keymap so that the sheriff's department can continue to use their spillman servers. If someone can just tell me how to make F1 produce a Ctrl-w at the console I would be a happy dude 🙂 I know it needs to be a text file, and it needs to be loaded using loadkeys. I know that F1 is equivelent to keycode 59 or 0x0100, and the syntax should be something like "keycode 59 = Control_w". That's what the man pages seem to say, but it doesn't seem to work....

Please help. Thanks.

 

[Armitage]

I think stuff like that gets handled in the X server (XFree86) setup. I think I remember something about re-mapping dead keys using X config files, and I'm fairly certain that's where you set up various keyboard configs.
Haven't done it myself though, so I can't help much more.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

found this, might help, might not 😛
in the bottom part it shows how to point loadkeys to the right keymap.
try gunzipping your /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz and opening it in an editor and have a look at how it works. (cp to ~/ and gunzip it actually, dont mess with the original one 😛)

p.s. i have never messed with this stuff so if the above post is completely wrong at least i bumped your thread 😛

 

[Quaggoth]

well Bing, I think you are on the right path. I have created a .kmap file (Copied the us one anyway) and I tell loadkeys to load that file. I then do a dumpkeys and all the changes are there and theoreticly should work.... But they don't 🙂

I also found a way to make that file I created get loaded as a default (Setting the $keyboard variable to /lib/.../qwerty/default.kmap). Again, I do a dumpkeys and all looks they way it should (With changes), but I hit F1 and I get no "w". I thought maybe F1 was incapable of producing a character (Don't see why but hey..) so I remapped the "z" to "x" and still no go. Dumpkeys still says z should be x but the keyboard disagrees. I just wish I had been in the community for a while longer so I would at least know where to ask. right now I just have posts here and redhat.com suport forums.