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diff --git a/software/unix-tricks.page b/software/unix-tricks.page index 533a174..41bda41 100644 --- a/software/unix-tricks.page +++ b/software/unix-tricks.page @@ -16,3 +16,12 @@ To fork off 10 instances of sleep with incremented lengths, 5 at a time:: $ seq 10 20 | xargs -n 1 -P 5 sleep +Remapping a Keyboard Key to Meta +----------------------------------- +I like having a Meta key (aka "Windows key") for use with system keyboard +shortcuts (change desktop etc), but some laptop keyboards don't have an extra +button. To remap one of the Alt keys, you need to know it's code: on FreeBSD +6.3 it was: ``Alt_R keysum 0xffea keycode 113``. To get the right mapping under +X11, read the directions in ``/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/README``. To get the right +mapping under the console, edit ``/usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd`` and +change 'ralt' to 'meta'. |