Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1473 mails)

[stefan.troeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Stefan Troeger)]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 16:36 +0200, James (Jim) Hatridge wrote:

> Thanks this was what I was looking for. A couple of notes about this.
> First in SuSE you'll find the inputrc file in /etc. If you don't have it
> in your /~home files like me. I just copied it to my /~home and changed
> it to add the command I wanted. 

That's the case with most configuration files -- there's a
global one in /etc and a personal one in ~/.

> The next question is I have a win98 keyboard. It has two windows keys and
> 3 buttons. None of these give anything when I use the Ctrl-V. Any idea how
> to get them to work? 

Yep. But it'll be a bit more complicated. First find out what
keyboard layout you're using (look for `KEYTABLE' in
/etc/rc.config). Let's assume it's

KEYTABLE="de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz"

Find the directory where the file de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz is
stored (it's somewhere in a subdirectory of /usr/lib/kbd). cd to
that dir and create a new file `my_keymap.map'. It should look
somewhat like this:

------------------------------------------------------------->

# <- this is a comment

# Load my default keyboard layout
include "de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map"

# Assign keysyms (e. g. `F100') to keycodes (e. g. `125') for
# the Windows keys
keycode 125 = F100
keycode 126 = F101
keycode 127 = F102

# Assign some strings to the keysyms
string F100 = "\033[100~"
string F101 = "\033[101~"
string F102 = "\033[101~"

<-------------------------------------------------------------

The keycodes I used in the above example might be different on
your keyboard. Use `showkey' to find it out.

I don't know if there are dedicated keysyms for the Windows
keys. I haven't found any so I've used F100 onwards (these
shouldn't be in use already unless you have a HUGE keyboard ;-)

Same goes for the strings ("\033[100~", ...) I've used. If
anyone is familiar with the naming conventions they follow, I'd
be interested to learn them. To make sure you don't use a string
that is already assigned to another key, do a

dumpkeys --long-info |less

and make sure the strings you want to use aren't in the list
dumpkeys shows you.

That's it. Now it's time to load the keymap (`loadkeys
my_keymap.map') and test it. Ctrl-V + keypress should now create
some output you can use in your ~/.inputrc.

If there aren't any errors, do a 

gzip my_keymap.map

and edit /etc/rc.config, replace the

KEYTABLE="de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz"

with

KEYTABLE="my_keymap.map.gz"

Ciao,
        Stefan