NeilFred Picciotto wrote:
> but! "alt" is now the option key instead of the command key...
Try an Apple USB keymap in console. In X, you'll have to use xmodmap(1x).
> searching the archive of this list, i see mentions of this fact, including
> someone saying it's easy to switch that back. but they didn't say *how*
> to do so, only that it's easy...
It is, and if you don't find out how yourself, you probably shouldn't. ;)
> am i correct in assuming that /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz is the keymap
> that's actually being used, so if i make changes to that, my changes will
> persist through a reboot?
Don't complain here if it doesn't or if it gets overwritten on the next
console-* upgrade.
> how come the keycodes in that file don't line up with the keycodes shown
> in xev?
X has its own keycodes.
> oh, and on the subject of the keyboard, is it still the case that there's
> no way to make Pismo's caps-lock key be control?
What you can do with Xkb though is prevent it from acting as Caps Lock.
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
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