Hi Kirk and All: I would really like to thank you for this quick responce. You saved me a lot of reading. I tried your suggestions and modified the speakup ins key and they all work just fine. So if anyone would like a copy of the speakupsticky.map file let me know. It works quite nicely. Once again thank you very much Kirk Kirk Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net> writes: > I would find the keymap you are loading and modify it as follows (either > add the lines, or modify any that are already there): > keycode 29 = SCtrl > keycode 42 = SShift > keycode 56 = SAlt > > These modifications will make your left Ctrl, Shift, and Alt keys work as > a sticky key. You can press and release them and the next character will > behave as if they are held down. They don't lock though. You can find more > information about this in section 15.1 of the > Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO. In fact the article tells you how to do all > kinds of cool and exciting stuff with your keyboard. As a word of warning, > changes in one console act accross the board. So don't figure that you can > change virtual consoles to bail out. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061