Hi Lennart/All, I haven't been too successful... more below On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:54:01AM -0400, Max Blanco wrote:

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Yesterday, Lennart told me how to "loadkey".

How do I find out what label (alt/ctrl/etc) is given to the "apple" key, and by extension, the "windows" and "mouseover/picklist" keys that do nothing?

The "unknown scancode e0 5e" is returned when I press the "power-recycle" toggle key on my mac. I would like to remap/loadkey this to "shutdown -h now", or "ctrlaltdel" in /etc/inittab language.

Is this possible?

Certainly, you just have to tell the kernel what keycode to send for that unknown scancode, and then map what that key should do. It can be done, but I haven't got time to look it up right now.

I thought keycodes were two hex digit long. I'm mystified by the four digits "e0 5e". Suppose I figure this out, I will know how to refer to the key. I will not know how to map the key to a function calling up "ctrlaltdel"; I will only know how to map the key to such madeup functions as "Console_1". Please help.

The howto on linux keyboard stuff on one of the many linux howto sites should shed some light on at least part of it.

I have tried... thanks, max. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml