I'd like to change layout (mapping) of Lenovo ThinkPad keyboard (which I hate) to be like Acer TravelMate 8000 (which I love).
That mainly means:
- Swap Fn and left Ctrl
- Tab-left to act like PgUp
- Fn' + Tab-left to act like Home
- Tab-right to act like PgDown
- Fn' + Tab-right to act like End
- PgUp to act like Delete
- Home to act like Insert
I've tried xev to see the codes.
I have found this list of symbols: http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/n800/keyboard/keysymdef.h
This is my result:
xmodmap -e 'keycode 112 = XF86Back' # Remap PgUp to TabPrev
xmodmap -e 'keycode 117 = XF86Forward' # Remap PgDn to Tabnext
xmodmap -e 'keycode 166 = Prior Home XF86Back' # Remap TabPrev to PgUp.
xmodmap -e 'keycode 167 = Next End XF86Forward' # Remap TabNext to PgDn.
xmodmap -e 'keycode 151 = Control_L' # Remap FN to be Ctrl.
xmodmap -e 'keycode 37 = XF86WakeUp' # Remap Ctrl to be FN.
xmodmap -e 'keycode 94 = Shift_L' # Remap stupid left |\*& to be Shift too.
However it's not exactly what I need as it maps Shift + Tab* to Home, which prevents me using the Shift + Home' combo (to select text) and only works in some applications (e.g. doesn't work in Firefox to go to the top).
So - how should I map it?
Update: I used setkeycodes and found these scancodes:
Press Release
TabLeft - 158 ^[[5~0xe0 0x6a 0xe0 0xea
TabRight - 159 ^[[6~0xe0 0x69 0xe0 0xe9
PgUp: 0xe0 0x49 0xe0 0xc9
PgDn: 0xe0 0x51 0xe0 0xd1
Ctrl: 0x1d 0x9d
FN: 0xe0 0x63 0xe0 0xe3
Update: I also found that dumpkeys shows interesting info.
Like, string aliases for some keys; e.g., the ^[[5~ shown by showkey -s is defined there.
Update: I've tried setkeycodes:
sudo setkeycodes 0xE063 29 ## Fn to Ctrl
sudo setkeycodes 0x1d 143 ## Ctrl to Fn
sudo setkeycodes 0x56 42 ## |\*& to Shift
showkeys -k shows the right keycodes coming, but still they don't work so - e.g. Ctrl+T doesn't open a tab in FF etc.
After reverting the changes, everything works as before.
sudo setkeycodes 0xE063 143 ## Fn to Ctrl
sudo setkeycodes 0x1d 29 ## Ctrl to Fn
What do I miss?
