Re: KeyBinding question

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 10:38:45PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Aaron Sloman, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I can live with that, but since I have several rarely used keys on
> the top row, I wondered if I could map them (e.g. F11 and F12) onto
> PageUp and PageDown.
>
> Ctwm is very flexible so I wonder whether it could handle this
> mapping.  Perhaps it is necessary to go deeper into Linux/X11
> innards, e.g. altering /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/gb.map.gz (for a UK
> keyboard) or something deep in the X window system, perhaps invoked
> via ctwm?

I don't think you can do that via ctwm.  The usual way would be to use
xmodmap(1) to remap stuff.  e.g., I invoke it pretty early in my
.xinitrc:

  xmodmap ~/.xmodmap

to do things like fix up that otherwise useless key some idiot decided
to put to the left of 'a':

  remove Lock    = Caps_Lock
  keycode 0x42 =  Control_L
  add    Control = Control_L

and various other tweaks.


xkeycaps(1) <http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/> is a useful frontend to
write up a first blush xmodmap file.


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