Ok, I will try to find how to configure the keyboard remap in /etc directories, it seems that not easy to do. Bowen On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 11:56:29PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 13:44 -0500, Bowen Wang wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > I have solved the keyboard remap problem. I will post my solution here. > > I used to use the xmodmap, but it doesn't work in Wayland anymore. So I dig > > into the xkb, I found two webpages particularly helpful. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_KeyBoard_extension > > http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/html/index.html > > > > After reading these webpages, I have solved my problem. But my solution has > > its limits, I think it can only handle keyboard remap, but if you want to > > add some more advanced stuff on it, I don't think it will work. > > > > To remap the keys, go to the directory: > > /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/ > > > > The files are mappings from key code that sent from keyboard hardware and > > the key names that actually prcoessed by the X system. For example, > > <LALT>=64 > > This means that when X system received the keycode 64 from the keyboard, I > > will map it to the left alt key in the X system, and sent <LALT> to other > > programs in X to get the functions about that key. So the solution is > > pretty simple, suppose that you want to swap Left Ctrl and Left Alt, the > > original configuration file is like this: > > <LALT>=64 > > <LCTL>=37 > > What you need to do is just change it into: > > <LALT>=37 > > <LCTL>=64 > > then restart the laptop. > > Glad you figured something out! However, you will probably want to > research a bit further. > > As a general rule, it's almost never correct to make a local > configuration modification by editing a file in /usr . Files under /usr > are usually owned by distribution packages and changes to them will not > be preserved when the package is updated. So in this case, we can see: > > [adamw@adam tmp]$ rpm -qf /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev > xkeyboard- > config-2.18-1.fc25.noarch > > that file is owned by the xkeyboard-config package, and whenever that package gets an update, your edits to it will be overwritten. > > If you keep researching on xkb, you should find a way to make your changes in a file under /etc (where system-wide local configuration is stored, by convention) or your home directory (where user-specific location configuration is stored). > > Good luck! > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net > http://www.happyassassin.net > _______________________________________________ > test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
