Re: Keyboard remapping

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2013-02-28 14:21:30 +0000, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 09:09 +0000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > Is it possible to make the fn key act as a control key inside of linux?
> > (I'd like to keep the functions of the fn key combinations if
> > possible).
> 
> Are the keys recognised? Have you checked?
> 
> When you run this command:
> 
> xev | grep -A2 --line-buffered '^KeyRelease' | sed -n '/keycode \
> /s/^.*keycode \([0-9]*\).* (.*, \(.*\)).*$/\1 \2/p'

xev is generally of too high level for keys like Fn.

/lib/udev/keymap is probably better, though it is buggy.

And this is the right way to swap keys on a particular keyboard,
because if you use something like XKB, it will affect all the
attached keyboards.

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