keyboard-workaround

tucolino · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 90

well-as-you-can-tell.-my-spacebar-died-on-a-laptop-i-have.-anyone-know-how-i-may-use-the-windows-key-as-a-spacebar?where-can-i-do-such-mapping?by-the-way.it-is-a-hardware-problem.
thanks,

tuco
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genstef · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject:

Map another key to space using xmodmap.

tucolino · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 90

excellent.thank you. hereś what i did:

1. use xev to find out te code to the windows key (115)
2. create .xmodmaprc and add:

keycode 115 = space

3. run xmodmap .xmodmaprc
4. done!

tuco
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