Re: Setting console keybindings
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:04:27PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> What's the good/right/proper way to set console keysyms?
>
> I want to change the CapsLock key to a CTRL key in my Linux console. I
> see that there are two packages which manage this, either kbd or
> console-tools. The latter is installed by default; is this the
> preferred tool going forward?
>
> With either of these I don't really see any way to customize the keymap
> that it installs; I could edit the default keymap before or after
> installation, but I would much prefer to come up with some out-of-band
> way of adding an override for this. I'm worried that if I modify these
> files my changes will just get overwritten when I upgrade these
> packages.
>
Once you have built the keymap file that you want, store it in
/etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz. It will then get loaded at boot
time and will not be disturbed by package updates.
-- Mark
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