Re: Remapping of dead key ??

[Elizabeth Barham <soggytrousers@yahoo.com>]

Sunny Dubey <dubeys@bxscience.edu> writes:

> I have a small problem.  I just took an old laptop and set it up as
> a MASQ box for my girl friend.  It runs debian woody, and works just
> perfectly.  There is this one problem ... the / key doesn't work.  (
> The key with / and ? on it).
> 
> So I was wondering if it was possible to map / to another key or
> something??

Yes that is fairly easy to do.

The keymaps are located in /usr/share/keymaps and the default is in
/etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz . Possibly the easiest method is to
gunzip the default.kmap.gz and work with it.

Find the keycode for the slash character; mine looks like:

keycode  53 = slash            question        
	control	keycode  53 = Delete          
	alt	keycode  53 = Meta_slash      
	shift	alt	keycode  53 = Meta_question   

To find out the keycode for an arbitrary key to remap the character
to, use the program "showkey", then replace the keycode number for
slash (53 in the above example) with the new one and remove the
previous definition for the new key.

Then gzip it again and to test it use "loadkeys".

Elizabeth