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

[Terry Hancock]

John E. Kreznar wrote:
>  Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> writes:
> > 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

Ironically, I *do* use Debian. I must not have tried that.  Thanks.

> > 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.

Thanks, you've probably helped loads -- I'm off to go check ...

Cheers,
Terry

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