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sirlark
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Joined: 25 Oct 2004
Posts: 306
Location: Limerick, Ireland
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 Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:51 pm Post subject: remapping the 'pause' key to delete |
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Hi,
I've just bought a new laptop, and the keyboard has one annoying physical layout problem. The pause key is right where I'm used to the Delete. Seeing as how I never use Pause for anything (I use CTRL-S/CTRL-Q for flow control) I figured I'd remap it it just delete anyway. I've managed to do this for X, using
| Code: | | xmodmap -e "keycode 127 = Delete" |
127 was reported by xev.
I'm trying to do something similar but at the level of the console keymap. When pressing pause while showkey is running
| Code: | ^[[3~keycode 119 press
keycode 119 release |
I've tried creating a modified version of the us keymap, with the added line
| Code: | | keycode 119 = Delete |
But this causes very strange keyboard behaviour after pause is pressed, requiring me the enter further keypresses increasingly multiple numbers of times to have the effect of a usual single keypress.
I suspect the '^[[3~' has something to do with it and that showkey isn't reporting the pause key accurately. I know that pause is historically one of the really strange exceptions to standard keyboard protocols, sending multiple scancodes in sequence, so I'm not sure if this is a no-hoper.
Has anyone else tried something similar, or can someone give me some pointers...
Thanks
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Malvineous
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Joined: 20 Oct 2006
Posts: 281
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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| Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 3:29 am Post subject: |
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When I run showkeys with -s (to list scancodes) it reports these:
0xe1 0x1d 0x45 // press
0xe1 0x9d 0xc5 // release
So as long as they're mapped to keycode 119 then you shouldn't have any problems.
The '^[[3~' is the keycode for Delete (which you can see if you run 'cat' and press the Delete key) so when you say you added the line "keycode 119 = Delete" to the keymap, did you also remove the line associating it with Pause? I'm not sure whether that would make a difference.
At any rate, if you're seeing '^[[3~' then it's correctly producing a Delete key event. I assume of course you really do mean Delete, and not Backspace! |
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