Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!wam.UMD.EDU!stripes From: stripes@wam.UMD.EDU Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Ultrix3.0/X11 key mappings - how? Message-ID: <8906280329.AA25279@cscwam.UMD.EDU> Date: 28 Jun 89 03:29:56 GMT References: <2097@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Organization: Sometimes, but not late at night... Lines: 33 In article <2097@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steve Dempsey) writes: [stuff removed] >I would like to remap my keyboard so shift-comma/period produces the old > brackets. This was simple under X10, but now it looks like I must >have an Xdefault entry like: > > Xterm*Vt100*Keymap*Tranlations: Shift,: string("<") > That does look un-nice, and not only that but it won't change the keys for dxmail, dxterm, xmh, and everything but xterm... >or some such thing. So what is the proper incantation, and where is it >documented? It's called xmodmap, there is a man page on our VAX, so you should have one too. I feed it this file which changes the <> keys as well as changeing the big "X in a Triangle like thing" key where the backspace belongs into a backspace (I use many termanls, and the VAXstation is the only one with a easy to find Delete key, so I set stty erase ^H...) feel free to change any or all of it... keycode 237 = period greater keycode 232 = comma less keycode 188 = BackSpace Delete !0xffff Delete > > Steve Dempsey, Center for Computer Assisted Engineering > Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 +1 303 491 0630 >INET: steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu, dempsey@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu >UUCP: boulder!ccncsu!longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu!steved, ...!ncar!handel!dempsey -- stripes@wam.umd.edu "Security for Unix is like Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Mutitasking for MS-DOS" "The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood "A career is great, but you can't run your fingers through it's hair"