<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Mario Vukelic wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1212911071.15582.21.camel@chronic.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 19:55 -0500, Young wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Have you used X11 keycaps? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> If you wanted to ask how it works: * Start xkeycaps * Select the correct keyboard type * Right-click the Ctrl key in the virtual keyboard * Select "Exchange Keys" * When prompted, click the Alt Key. The keys are now exchanged * Let it write the xmodmap file * Include the xmodmap command to read the xmodmap file in some appropriate startup script * See "man xkeycaps" ang Google for details </pre> </blockquote> That sounds like an easy way to do it. I'll give it a try. Does it persist through a restart? Several days ago I tried using xmodmap directly. but seemed to find that it didn't really change what I wanted to change. This is an excerpt from a 6/3 email to my local Linux User Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've never used xmodmap before, so I guess I'm missing something in the documentation. This is a new Ubuntu 8.04 install. I want to swap the Ctrl and Alt keys, and I'd appreciate any help you can give. Using XEV I got this for my keyboard. Left Ctrl key keysym 0xffe3 = keycode 37 = Control_L Right Ctrl key keysym 0xffe4 = keycode 109 = Control_R Left Alt key keysym 0xffe9 = keycode 64 = Alt_L Right Alt key keysym 0xffea = keycode 113 = Alt_R Then I run this to Swap Ctrl & Alt. ~$ xmodmap -e "keycode 64 = Control_L" ~$ xmodmap -e "keycode 113 = Control_R" ~$ xmodmap -e "keycode 37 = Alt_L" ~$ xmodmap -e "keycode 109 = Alt_R" Checking results with XEV. Now I get this: Left Ctrl key keysym 0xffe9 = keycode 37 = Alt_L Right Ctrl key keysym 0xffea = keycode 109 = Alt_R Left Alt key keysym 0xffe3 = keycode 64 = Control_L Right Alt key keysym 0xffe4 = keycode 113 = Control_R But, when using a keyboard command like Alt+V to Copy as the replacement for Ctrl+V, it doesn't work. The Ctrl+V still performs a Paste. I knew that what I did should only work until the next reboot, but I was going to figure out how to add it to a startup script later. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </body> </html>