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From: klee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Is it possible to translate characters ?
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Date: 5 Dec 89 18:06:26 GMT
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In article <810@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de>,
gengenba@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Michael Gengenbach) writes:
> Is it possible to use this translation tables to change the characters
> you type in all applications. And if so, how?

You probably want to change the keyboard mapping.  See section 7.9 of
the Xlib manual.  You can do this from the command line with xmodmap.
For example, on a DECstation 3100,
	xmodmap -e "keycode 195 = y Y"
will change cause the "z" key (keycode 195) to report y (unshifted) 
and Y (shifted).

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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