SUMMARY: Keyboard remapping
Original post:
>Hello All,
>
>I need to remap X-terminal Function keys to act as the SUN-4 keyboard
>Front, Open, Copy, and Paste keys.
>
>These X-terminals are booting from a 1000 running Sol 2.3, OpenWindows 3.3.
>
>Answerbook and man pages did not appear to contain the pertinent information.
>
>If anybody can point me in the right direction, or better yet knows how to
>do this, please let me know.
>
>Thank you.
What a great bunch of people on this list! Give yourselves a hand!
xmodmap is the unanimous winner.
I created the following file named .xmodmaprc
keycode 117 = Home
keycode 114 = End
keycode 121 = Insert
keycode 134 = Prior
keycode 131 = Next
keycode 122 = Delete
!
! Sun Cut
keycode 112 = F20
! Sun Paste
keycode 120 = F18
! Sun Copy
keycode 119 = F16
! Sun Undo
keycode 118 = F14
! Sun Find
keycode 110 = F19
! Sun Front
keycode 109 = F15
Then, at the beginning of the users' .cshrc files I added this line:
xmodmap $HOME/.xmodmaprc
The keyboard is a PC 101-style layout. The users wanted to use the six
"Insert,Home,Page-Up,Delete,End,Page-Dn" keys, located above the arrow
keys, for "Cut,Copy,Paste,Front,Find,Undo" and did not care about the
remaining Sun "L" keys.
Some special notes:
The Sun "L" keys are actually F11-F20. Special thanks to
steve@ma.hw.ac.uk (Steve Mowbray) for specifically mentioning this.
" [xmodmap] changes the mapping of X key events to keysyms for a given X
display. That is, its effects are global to that display, rather than
set up per client. This may be an advantage or a disadvantage in your
particular case." Special thanks to Dan Razzell <razzell@cs.ubc.ca>
A search for xmodmap in AnswerBook returned zero entries, although
man pages had a lengthy entry.
The hardware involved:
HP 700RX x-terminals booting from SPARCserver 1000 running Sol 2.3,
OpenWindows 3.3 and HP's Enware 5.1 (boot software for the xterms that
runs on the SPARCserver).
And a big THANK YOU to all who responded:
Boyd Fletcher <boyd@ccpo.odu.edu>
heggli@htl-bw.ch (Heggli Beat)
Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
steve@ma.hw.ac.uk (Steve Mowbray)
"Srinivasa R. Yalavarthy" <srini@concorde.com>
nlf@aluxpo.att.com (Nelson Fernandez)
"Jeff J. Dingbaum" <dingbaum@hep.net>
kevin@virtual.virtual.com (Kevin Sampron [Systems Engineer - Advanced
billh@dcvast.com (Bill Holzapfel)
Khanh Vo khanh.t.vo@bagate.bell-atl.com
Dan Razzell <razzell@cs.ubc.ca>
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