Re: Keyboard remapping

[Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au>]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:38:23AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2013-03-01 12:07:07 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:36:24PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > /lib/udev/keymap is probably better, though it is buggy.
> > 
> > Ok, so I haven't made any changes in there yet. 
> > 
> > I've ran showkeys and found that the fn key has a key code. 
> > 
> > However, when I do fn+j for example only the fn key code is noted. 
> 
> What if you start showkeys in scan code dump mode?

How to do this?

> > In addition to this I've discovered that my keyboard does not have an
> > application key or a right windows key (the key you press to get a
> > context menu in a gui).... It is the equivalent of right clicking
> > basically. Since I'm blind and I can't use a mouse this key is kind of
> > important. How could I bind right alt to act as this key? 
> 
> If you want to do this only for this keyboard (not for some USB
> keyboard that you would connect), you can use /lib/udev/keymap
> to map the scancode of the key to the wanted keycode (I don't
> have such a key, so I don't know).

How to do that though /lib/udev/keymap appears binary? 

Is it possible to do this through xmodmap or siilar I only need it for X
(gnome).

Thanks.