[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#531478: /etc/{kbd|console-tools}/remap not supported

[Adeodato Simó]

+ Anton Zinoviev (Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:59:55 +0300):

> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:19:45PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:

> > I miss this functionality, and I don't think we should ditch it because
> > it's very handy (just doing a couple adjustments in a keymap, eg. for
> > keybindings). I also found no documentation in console-setup about how
> > to achive something similar within that package.

> Can you specify what kind of remapping you are using?  Maybe it is 
> supported by xkb?

Well, I purposedly mentioned the word "keybindings" above since that's
more akin to the use of remapping I'm making use. In particular, I'm
using:

  % cat /etc/kbd/remap
  # This sed script is run across the dumpkeys output to remap keys on the console
  $a\
  alt keycode 36 = Incr_Console \
  alt keycode 37 = Decr_Console

So I doubt that's going to be supported out of the box, and rightfully so.

> > Anyway. Could we get console-setup to support an /etc/console-setup/remap
> > file, or get kbd's one to work?

> XKB supports many options so in most case it should be possible to 
> configure properly the keyboard without remapping.  In cases when this 
> is not so I think it is better fill a wishlist bug report against 
> xkb-data than to use remapping as a quick hack.  I can make the keyboard 
> file for XKB if needed.

Well, as seen above, I'm wanting a rather console-specific mapping, and
other people could want for completely different keys, so I can't see
how that could fit for xkb-data.

> But to answer your question - yes, this is possible but I am reluctand 
> to do so.  I've noticed that in many occasions dumpkeys doesn't work 
> properly and I don't want to introduce in console-setup bugs that I will 
> be unable to fix.

I see. Well, what procedure would you recommend for my use case above? :-)

Thanks,

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