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From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: keyboard remapping on DECstation 3100
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.112535.26182@pronto.mh.nl>
Date: 23 Feb 91 11:25:35 GMT
References: <16896@milton.u.washington.edu>
Sender: jv@pronto.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Reply-To: Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl>
Organization: Multihouse Automation, the Netherlands
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In-Reply-To: iho@cac.washington.edu's message of 21 Feb 91 20:40:17 GMT

In article <16896@milton.u.washington.edu> iho@cac.washington.edu (Il Oh) writes:

   I have a DECstation 3100.  I really hate the placement of the < and >
   keys.  I can remap them when I use dxterm with the "customize" option,
   but not with other X clients.  Is there a way to do this remapping with
   other X clients?  Better yet, is there a way to do this remapping
   globally for all applications running on it?

Yes. The answer is "xmodmap". It is on the Supported Subsets tape, in
subset UDXUNMIT400 (unsupported MIT X11 clients).

Create a file, e.g. ".keymap", in your $HOME directory, and call
xmodmap once, from your .X11Startup:

   xmodmap .keymap

IMPORTANT: Cancel any remapping you have configured in DXterm, since
this remapping takes place on the xmodmap remapped keys. You get some
kind of doubly remapped keys...

This is my .keymap file. It also takes care of the Escape key.

================ start of .keymap ================
! make sure the common functions work
keycode 113 = F11
! [~`] -> ESC and ~
keycode 191 = Escape asciitilde
! [<>] -> [`~]
keycode 201 = quoteleft asciitilde
! [,,] -> [,<]
keycode 232 = comma less
! [..] -> [.>]
keycode 237 = period greater
! Remove dangerous Caps_Lock
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
================ end of .keymap ================

Happy hacking!

	Johan

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