chombee <chom...@lavabit.com> writes:
> Could someone help me sort out my keyboard configuration, or send me on
> the right track? I've investigated a little but I really don't know what
> to do. It's a somewhat tricky configuration.
>
> 1. I have two keyboards. The built-in one (it's a laptop), and an
> external one that I use. Since the keyboards are different no one
> configuration will work for both. Is it possible to have different
> configs for different keyboards?
You can do this with two different files for the xmodmap command. See
man xmodmap.
>From command line:
xmodmap [options . . .] ~/laptop-keyboard
or
xmodmap [options . . .] ~/other-keyboard
To set up these files, you need some information about what keycodes
the keys are sending. You can get this with the xev command.
> 2. Since the built-in keyboard has a stuck left alt key (it presses
> itself all the time) I had to disable left alt using an Xmodmap file.
> But this also disables left alt on the external keyboard. Is there a way
> to disable the key on the built-in only?
Same advice as above.
[ snip ]
This would be a *different* way of setting your keyboard
options from using Gnome-->System-->Preferences-->Keyboard. You would
be doing manually what the Gnome*Keyboard does semi-automatically.
Hope this helps.
Hugh
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