On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 03:49:39PM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > I use my laptop in several different locations - in one of them the > keyboard that I connect to it is an Apple keyboard that has Alt_L and > Multi_key (aka, Windows key but in that case, Option and Meta) reversed > compared to all of my other keyboards. So instead of Ctrl, Multi_key, > Alt_L as the three keys next to each other, I get Ctrl, Alt_L, > Multi_key. > > Needless to say, this is a real pain for "muscle memory" when typing. > > Is there a way to configure X to detect when this specific keyboard is > connected (it identifies itself as Apple keyboard) and to remap those > two keys? yes and no, you can add config snippets based on the device name to apply different XKB models and rules. for more info and examples, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration however, in this particular case you'll run into two issues: - I don't know off-heart if there are any xkb options that do exactly that. - if you're using e.g. GNOME, it will overwrite your settings with the session-configured xkb layout. so you'd need to disable the keyboard gnome plugin, or apply it manually. you can also do it at runtime with setxkbmap, that supports a device id (again, provided there's an xkb option for it) Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
