Re: Remapping Keyboard Keys
> (Sortof on-list-topic)
>
> Last October, I had the misfortune to spill my coca-cola ...
> ... eventually shorted out the left-most keys on the board.
>
> I was wondering if there was any way to remap the keys affected by the
> cola-spill to working, but unused keys on the right-hand side. I am able
> to remap the keys in X, but I have no clue where to begin working to
> alleviate the console situation.
What you're looking for is keymaps. I learned about it when reading about
/etc/inittab and trying to figure out how to awaken using that "kbrequest"
feature.
Anyways I suppose you can do something weird like turn one of the still
working middle keys into a shifter, and use it to shift all the keys by 5
or 6 positions. I hope your spacebar still works. Your keymap file is
going to end up a lot longer than normal :)
> BTW, if anybody has a connection to buy replacement Toshiba keyboards,
> let me know. I would be very grateful.
Sorry, I dunno. I always wished that some enterprising manufacturer would
make it easy to change a laptop keyboard (like, so we can get layouts we
like, instead of having to decide: we like the video and the sound support,
nope the keyboard sucks, let's try another one.
* Heather
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