How to remap your keyboard

[Wouter Eerdekens]

Hi.

I am using a Mac Mini with a  standard Apple keyboard and I'm running
Ubuntu 6.06.

I want to remap my keyboard to be more "mac like" :

- swap the Control and Command key (Super key)
- move the tilde/backquote key to its correct location (left of the 'z' key)

First I used 'xev' to determine the keycode of the Command key (115)

I tried adding the following to ~/.xmodmap:

keycode 115 = Control_L

But to no avail... xev shows the following afterwards:

KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
    root 0x4c, subw 0x0, time 2025510245, (409,309), root:(419,382),
    state 0x0, keycode 115 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

So the remapping is correct, but Gnome seems to ignore the remapping...

My /etc/X11/xorg.conf keyboard configuration:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "macintosh"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Gnome keyboard configuration:

- Keyboard model: Macintosh
- Keyboard layout: U.S. English

Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Wouter

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