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yantene

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Registered: 2014-01-30

Posts: 2

How to remap some keys of built-in keyboard by Xorg.conf

Please forgive my poor English.

I want to remap some keys of built-in keyboard on a laptop. I show below the remap list.

• Caps_lock -> Control_L

• Control_L -> Super_L

• Control_R -> Super_L

I used to remap it using Xmodmap. However, the solution remaps keys of external keyboards, also.

Therefore I tried the following procedure.

First, I checked the device name of the built-in keyboard.

$ grep 'keyboard' /proc/bus/input/devices
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"

Then, I checked the keycode.

$ xmodmap -pke | grep -P "= (Caps_lock|Control_[LR]|Super_L)"
keycode  37 = Control_L NoSymbol Control_L
keycode  66 = Caps_Lock NoSymbol Caps_Lock
keycode 105 = Control_R NoSymbol Control_R
keycode 133 = Super_L NoSymbol Super_L

And I wrote the following xorg.conf file.

# cat > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf <<EOS
Section "InputClass"
  Identifier "Built-in keyboard"
  MatchIsKeyboard "on"
  MatchProduct "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
  Option "event_key_remap" "66=37 37=133 105=133"
EndSection

However, this method doesn't go well, and the keys aren't remapped.

If you have any good idea, please tell me it.