Re: [gentoo-user] remap console keys

[Thanasis]

on 01/13/2010 09:48 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
> on 01/13/2010 08:59 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
>
>> on 01/13/2010 08:38 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
>>
>>
>>> swapping keys
>>>
>>>
>> I think I 'm in the right direction looking at KEYMAPS(5)
>>
>>
> Here is what I did:
> 1) chose a keymap file (/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/gr.map.gz in my case)
> 2) copied and unzipped it at some location and edited it like so:
>
> # diff gr.map-modified gr.map
> 102c102
> < keycode  56 = Control
> ---
>
>> keycode  29 = Control
>>
> 142c142
> < keycode  29 = Alt
> ---
>
>> keycode  56 = Alt
>>
> 3) Then restarted /etc/init.d/keymaps
> (/etc/init.d/keymaps restart)
> and it worked, ie left ALT and CTRL where swapped (in console F1 to F6)
>
> 4) To make it permanent we can then edit /etc/conf.d/keymaps
> and change the keymap="...." entry to the pathname of our new keymap file.
>
> Any comments, before I consider the case solved, are welcome.
> :-)
>
>
>
Correction: step 3 should be:
3) As root, I run:
# loadkeys <new-keymap-file>
and it worked, ie left ALT and CTRL where swapped (in console F1 to F6)