The best keyboard I've ever used (due to size, keys feel, and overall cuteness) is the Sun Type 5 (USB) keyboard that came with my w1100z AMD Opteron "Java Workstation". These huge keyboards (yes, size does matter :-P) have custom keys labeled "Cut" "copy" and "paste". However, I haven't found any way on Linux to have these keys operate as "cut" "copy" and Paste. I mean, emulate a Ctrl-C for Copy, a Ctrl-V for Paste, and Ctrl-X for Cut. Is there any EASY way to repgrogram keyboards under Linux so that these keys work seamlessly under Linux?. The problem I remember was that under Linux the terminal uses its own config to get/send keystrokes, X uses its own, and then Gnome added another layer of complexity on top. So in the end to make one keyboard layout change one had to change Gnome's keyboard-handler, then X's config, and then something else to make the change work on text mode terminals as well. Under Sun's OpenSolaris I guess it's all fine and surely Sun has tweaked things everywhere or just included a "Sun Type 5" keyboard setting that modifed things at all levels needed. At least, I remember reading somewhere that under Sun's "JDS Linux" (released in 2003 and based on Novell's NLD) they tweaked Xfree86's config and hacked in support for Sun's keyboards. However, I'm not sure those changes were incorporated upstream (and even if those were, Linux switched from Xfree86 to X.org shortly after that). Finally, to futher complicate things, I don't think that the copy/paste/cut keys were ever intended to send Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-X keystrokes, I'm sure those keys send their own particular scancodes... Come on... I guess I'm not the only one whom loves the Sun Type 5 keyboards and would love to get full seamless functionality out of those keys.. Thoughts? Comments? Expletives? ;-) (pleaase refrain from saying "yes, press Ctrl and then C for copy.... etc") ;-) FC -- Dream of the Daily Mail It is the Holy Grail And then the BBC Your life would be complete -Manic Street Preachers, "Royal Correspondent" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
