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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] USB keyboard remapping

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:19:35PM -0400, Kevin Everets wrote:

> While I was learning dvorak, I used a suggestion from Jody McIntyre (I
> believe) to alias 'aoeu' to "xmodmap qwerty.map" and 'asdf' to
> "xmodmap dvorak.map" (or similar).

Must have been someone else.  You've been dvoraking for longer than me
and I think it was you who told me to do it (or Phil :)

I've been known to take this one step furthur and add the following
/etc/passwd entries:

aoeu::1003:1003:Switch to QWERTY:/home/aoeu:/usr/local/bin/aoeu
asdf::1003:1003:Switch to Dvorak:/home/aoeu:/usr/local/bin/asdf

I still haven't figured out an easy way to do this for X logins though
(rewrite X configuration and restart is a bit too much effort.)


Cheers,
Jody

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> Kevin.
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