[Wolves] keymapping

[Aquarius]

Peter Oliver spoo'd forth: 
>> Ignore Peter, he's too hardcore for words,  and  listen  to  me  :)  Use 
>> xkeycaps, because it gives you  a  nice  graphical  interface  on  this, 
>> rather than pratting about with xev ;-)
>> 
>> Xkeycaps does actually do the xmodmap stuff under the covers,  but  it's 
>> a lot easier than doing it the hardcore way, in much the same  way  that 
>> apt-get is easier than using Slackware...
> 
> Hmm, the man has a point.  If xkeycaps is bundled with your distribution 
> then use that.
> 
> Of course, xmodmap you'll want to call from from your .xinitrc if you want
> to swap your ctrl and caps-lock keys, say.  It's a standard part of the
> X11 distribution and hence can be trusted to be available.
> 
> In fact, you don't want to be goofing around with some GUI each time you
> use the broken-spacebar machine, so now you know how you'll want to use
> xmodmap in this case, too. 

Xkeycaps will happily output xmodmap lines which you  can  then  add  to 
your .xinitrc or .xsession or whatever, so you  get  the  best  of  both 
worlds...

Aq.

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