On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:04:27PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote: > What's the good/right/proper way to set console keysyms? > > I want to change the CapsLock key to a CTRL key in my Linux console. I > see that there are two packages which manage this, either kbd or > console-tools. The latter is installed by default; is this the > preferred tool going forward? > > With either of these I don't really see any way to customize the keymap > that it installs; I could edit the default keymap before or after > installation, but I would much prefer to come up with some out-of-band > way of adding an override for this. I'm worried that if I modify these > files my changes will just get overwritten when I upgrade these > packages. >
Once you have built the keymap file that you want, store it in /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz. It will then get loaded at boot time and will not be disturbed by package updates. -- Mark
