Subject: Re: Backspace in X?
To: Jared Smolens <jsmolens+@andrew.cmu.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 12/20/2000 12:01:05
xkeycaps is also in pkgsrc - precompiled pmax binaries available
on ftp.netbsd.org in:
/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.3.2/pmax/All/xkeycaps-2.38.tgz
/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.4.2/pmax/All/xkeycaps-2.44.tgz
/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/pmax/All/xkeycaps-2.44.tgz
David/absolute -- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Jared Smolens wrote:
>
> I meant to post this earlier, but another much more intuitive way to fix
> the backspace (and any other keys, such as Meta) is with Jamie
> Zawinski's XKeyCaps program. It provides a graphical view of many
> common keyboards, including the DEC LK201/LK401 and writes a file for
> xmodmap automatically.
>
> The program is available at: http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/
>
> Just stick a command like xmodmap ~/.xmodmap-`uname -n` in your .xinitrc
> file like it says and you'll never have to worry about the keymapping on
> your pmax hosts.
>
> Cheers,
>
> JCSmolens
>
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