Re: moz X resources

Jeffrey Siegal wrote:
> Mårten Svantesson wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> I'm attempting to re-map some of the Sun keyboard for use in Mozilla.
>>>
>>> As an example, it would be nice to map the Sun "Cut" key to be the 
>>> same as "Del" EVERYWHERE.  The "Cut" key does a delete if I'm typing 
>>> in a new message, but it DOESN'T delete the current message if the 
>>> focus is on the message list . . . .
>>>
>>> Normally, I'd do this with something like:
>>>
>>> Netscape*translations: #override\
>>>    <Key>SunCut: string(0x7f)\n\
>>>
>>> in .Xdefaults, but this doesn't work.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any light you can shed on this . . . .
>>
>>
>>
>> Here you have information on customizing key bindings in Mozilla:
>>
>> http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#keys
> 
> 
> Doing this through X can be preferable in some cases because you want to 
>  remap the keyboard when using the application on one device (with one 
> keyboard), but not when others.  It can be more of a device 
> configuration (sort of like display resolution, color depth, etc.) than 
> a user preference.
> 
> Then again, you might be able to use xmodmap to do what you want.

It is possible to do this with xmodmap:

xmodmap -e "keysym F20 = Delete"

but it's sort of global . . . .

I was unable to get the advice from the above customizing page to work; I couldn't figure out the binding for the message list window in Mail/News.

Dan