Subject: Re: Custom keymap -- How do I make one?
To: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@iosystems.co.uk>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/30/2002 13:48:55
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:22:47AM +0100, Chris Wareham wrote:
> Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
> >What I miss most about my Amiga 2000
> >was that it was easy to redefine the
> >keyboard. I could put any code, or
> >indeed a string of codes, onto any
> >key at all.
> >I had even made one for ISO Latin-3
> >in Esperanto and so could type 50 wpm.
> >Now that XFree86 has ISO 10646 fonts,
> >I'd very much like to make one now for
> >Unicode. I could then stop running a
> >Perl script to filter every damn time.
> >That would be so cool. Try as I may I
> >could never puzzle that out in Windoze.
> >Surely it is possible in NetBSD. Where do
> >I start to find out how? And can I switch
> >it on and off like I used to on the Amiga?
> >Millions would be ever so grateful. Okay,
> >thousands. Er, hundreds? A dozen? Well...
> >me anyway.
> >
>
> Jamie Zawinski has a neat utility called XKeyCaps which
> simplifies the writing of keyboard mappings:
>
> http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/
pkgsrc/x11/xkeycaps
Regards,
Alistair