Changing non-printing keys in keyboard layout

[Marty Jack]

On 05/08/2011 05:47 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Hi all, I'm trying to write a new keyboard layout to help with a
> manual disability. I have no problems moving the letters around but
> the non-printing character keys are being tenacious:
> 
> How does one map Enter to a different key? The following did not have
> any effect:
> key <AC05> { [ enter                      ] };
> 
> How does one prevent Capslock from being activated when the physical
> Capslock key is reassigned to a letter? I have the following:
> key <CAPS> { [ a,             A           ] };
> However, repeatedly pressing that key results in this output:
> aAaAaAaA
> This is because in addition to the letter, the caps state is being toggled!
> 
> I have a similar issue with Shift, assigning it to Z and pressing the
> key results in both a Z _and_ a shift being activated:
> key <LFSH> { [ z,             Z           ] };
> 
> How does one assign Caps Lock? The following did not have any effect:
> key <AB05> { [ caps_Lock   ] };
> 
> How does one assign Esc? The following did not have any effect:
> key <AE05> { [ escape                     ] };
> 
> I'm currently using Debian Squeeze with KDE. It is important to solve
> this issue with a keyboard layout as opposed to playing with the
> scancodes and keycodes because there are other users of the system and
> the computer needs to be able to switch on the fly to standard US,
> Hebrew, and Russian layouts.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Oops, that should have been /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h.  No amount of installing the X development headers is going to give you /usr/share/X11/keysymdef.h.  The rest of the keyboard stuff is under /usr/share/X11/xkb.  Normally, anyway, or it could be xorg instead of X11.