Jay C Vollmer wrote:
Hi Everybody.
I'm hoping that somebody out there can tell me how to unmap the left control key on my ThinkPad T61p running openSUSE 11.0.
Hi Jay, This can be done in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and will affect all user accounts on the machine. A great front-end for modifying this file is sax2. Just run sax2 as root and select keyboard properties. Click on the "options" tab, scroll down a bit and you'll see "Control Key Position" with six options, one of them being "none". My preference is to swap the "Caps Lock" and "Control" keys. I've been pissed off at keyboards ever since IBM moved the control key away from its God-Appointed position of being directly left of the "A" key when the IBM-AT Pea Sea came out. UNIX folks use the control key quite a bit, and what better place to put it than right next to the A key? What Knuckle Head ever figured that the Caps Lock key is more important than the control key? It must have been a Windows Knuckle Head! Remapping control is my little way of fighting the Borg. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org