Linux Keystroke HOWTO

Zenon Fortuna, zenon@netcom.com

v2.0, 4 April 1995


This document is for users, who want to assign special action to some of keys of the keyboard. The suggested method is to use the loadkeys(1) or to modify the defkeymap.c file and relink the kernel. This text does NOT discuss remapping of keyboard keys, e.g. Backspace or Delete keys. For information about remapping of keys read the Backspace Mini-HOWTO written by Stephen Lee. The method described below was tested on Linux 1.2.1 release, packaged in the Slackware 2.2.0 distribution.

1. History of changes

2. Short description

3. Tools for keyboard driver modification

4. Modifying keytable file