[Tfug] remapping keys

[Stephen Hooper]

On 4/13/07, christopher floess <skeptikos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/13/07, Stephen Hooper <stephen.hooper at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > man showkey?
>
>
> doesn't help. When I run it, and press caps lock or scroll lock nothing
> happens. I
> tried pressing some other buttons to confirm that it works, and it does.
>

Weird... it shows me the key press of my scroll lock, and of my caps lock.

showkey -k
keycode 70 press
keycode 70 release
keycode 58 press
keycode 58 release

> > There aren't really events, you know?
> no. Could you expand on this?

I mean that certain keys may not run through the keyboard controller
(for example the little "radio" button on my laptop), and those may
show up as an X event depending on how things are geting read.

> Should I attach a copy of kbdcontrol -d?
>
I guess it wouldn't hurt, but if you aren't seeing them, then I am
assuming it is something more BSD-ish than I know.