Re: use the "windows" key as the escape key

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:03 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> I was about to blog on this, perhaps a different angle of attack than
> what you ask for, but it works for me.
> (I'm suffering from blog constipation,
> things worth blogging about are happening too fast
> and taking up all the time I have to blog about them.  :-( )
>
> I remap the Windows key to the escape character.
>
> I'm using a Debian system with the 'kbd' package replacing
> 'console-tools' - this makes a big difference.
> The procedure for remapping keys under 'console-tools' is
> described in the console/keyboard Howto from tldp.
> To do this under 'kbd', first identify the key code for the
> Windows key - same as under 'console-tools', with showkeys.
> On my system, it was 126.
> Then go to the directory /etc/console-setup/,
> and backup the file cached.kmap.gz.
> Uzip it with the tool of your choice.
> Following the pattern of the file,
> go to, or insert if it isn't there, the appropriate line, in my case
>
> keycode 126 = Control_o Control_o Control_o Control_o Control_o Control_o 
> Control_o
> Control_o Control_o Control_o
>
> and fill in with the appropriate value - as you can see,
> I remap it in my screenrc to C-O for various reasons.
> Recompress the file and replace the original   cached.kmap.gz.
> Then execute the command:
>
> setupcon  --force -v -k
>
> Anyway, it works for me.  :-)

Well that's a bit more involved than what I was looking for, but I'll
give it a shot ;-)

Cheers, and thanks a lot!

:-Dustin

p.s. You should blog it too ;-)