Subject: Re: Custom keymap -- How do I make one?
To: Gan Uesli Starling <alias@starling.ws>
From: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@iosystems.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/30/2002 10:22:47
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/

Chris

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