I append the following to /etc/console-setup/remap.inc # Ctrl-arrow keys need to send the same codes as in X/xterm. Control keycode 105 = F51 string F51 = "\033[1;5D" Control keycode 106 = F52 string F52 = "\033[1;5C" Control keycode 108 = F53 string F53 = "\033[1;5B" Control keycode 103 = F54 string F54 = "\033[1;5A"
# Alt-space may as well produce a space rather than # nul Meta_nul or Meta_space alt keycode 57 = F41 string F41 = " " Then I run in a VC (without X running at all) # dpkg-reconfigure console-setup ; dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration making no changes. (Why both? Laziness; that line is in my .bash_history file.) Shift-backspace? Personally, I wouldn't want it to do anything other than the same as backspace, but the principle is the same. If X is running when you dpkg-reconfigure, you can get weird effects when trying to switch X/VC or between X desktops until you restart it. I *think* it goes away, perhaps being caused by the way terminal settings are saved and restored when switching. The format of remap.inc is a little wacky, especially what you can put before "keycode": eg you can write Control or control, but where the example included in the file has ctrll, Ctrll doesn't seem to work. dumpkeys -f will show the modified keymap (I find it easier to inspect when piped through a whitespace crusher), and dumpkeys -l indicates that available F numbers go up to F246 (0x01ff) here. Cheers, David.
