[SGVLUG] Remapping keys in X? Howtos? Leads?

[John E. Kreznar]

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Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> writes:

> I've been looking for the right way to tackle this, but I've found
> several leads with Google, and I'm not sure which to follow up on:

> KDE: Control Center --> Regional & Accessibility --> Keyboard Layout
>     Lets me change layouts, but I don't see how to create one.  Mentions
>     'xkb', but I haven't found that.

You must not use debian.  "apt-cache search xkb" gives this list of
packages:

  fookb-plainx - An Xkb state indicator -- plain X version.
  fookb-wmaker - An Xkb state indicator -- WindowMaker version.
  libxkbfile-dev - X11 keyboard file manipulation library (development headers)
  libxkbfile1 - X11 keyboard file manipulation library
  libxkbfile1-dbg - X11 keyboard file manipulation library (debug package)
  libxkbsel-dev - Tool for defining, selecting, and indicating XKB keyboards.
  libxkbui-dev - X11 keyboard UI presentation library (development headers)
  libxkbui1 - X11 keyboard UI presentation library
  libxkbui1-dbg - X11 keyboard UI presentation library (debug package)
  libxklavier10 - X Keyboard Extension high-level API
  x11proto-kb-dev - X11 XKB extension wire protocol
  xbase-clients - miscellaneous X clients
  xiterm+thai - x-terminal program with Thai languague support
  xkb-data - X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configuration data
  xkb-data-legacy - Classic XKB data
  xkbsel - Tool for defining, selecting, and indicating XKB keyboards.
  xkbset - Small utility to change the AccessX settings of XKEYBOARD
  xxkb - Keyboard state indicator and switcher for xkb
  xlibs - X Window System client libraries metapackage and XKB data
  libxklavier8 - X Keyboard Extension high-level API
  nonlock - Thai (and other) Keyboard swithcher using XKB

> I remember 'way back when' that the old Macs had an application that
> would display the keyboard graphically with the currently-mapped
> characters for each key.  If you could change the layout graphic to
> match different keyboards and make each key remappable, that would
> be a really cool Linux app -- I wonder if someone has tried that
> already. (?)

Yes.  I've used such a thing under Linux.  Its library contains
graphical representations of each of a huge variety of keyboards.

Knowing it exists, you should be able to find it, maybe via the "xkb"
stuff above.

I'd help more, but I'm out of time.

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
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