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- From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: Re: Keycode Assignments for use by xmodmap
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.122935.11121@ericsson.se>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 12:29:35 GMT
- References: <C17Dr6.2G4@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>
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- Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
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- In article <C17Dr6.2G4@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>, marvo@asl.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Vogt) writes:
- |> Hello,
- |>
- |> I have problems in setting up the Sun Type5 keyboard attached to a
- |> SPARCstation 10 correctly.
- |>
- |> On the console screen (right after the login process) I can use
- |> the grey cursor keys, but when I start XWindows, XWindows seems
- |> to change the keycode assignments. These keycodes differ from the
- |> codes I found in the 'Sun Type5 Keyboard Product Notes', which
- |> came along with the SPARCstation 10 package.
- |>
- |> I won't be able to use the grey cursor keys unless I modify the keymap
- |> using 'xmodmap'. The file I feed to xmodmap contains the following lines:
- |>
- |> keycode 27 = Up
- |> keycode 31 = Left
- |> keycode 34 = Down
- |> keycode 35 = Right
- |>
- |>
- |> Is there a way to have a global keycode assignment instead of having
- |> each user include the xmodmap command with his '.xinitrc' file?
- |> Or could I prevent XWindows from changing keycode assignments?
- |>
- |> I would appreciate any help,
- |>
- |> Markus
-
- There is a patch to support Type 5 keyboards, it is in
- sunkbd.921216.tar.Z and available from germany.eu.net amongst other
- sites. It also gives you a compose key.
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