- To: david <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] keyboard layouts
- From: Ben <shadroth@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:22:31 +1000
- Cc: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
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You may find it useful to grab the colemak layout files from
colemak.com and see how they've done it. Colemak is available from the
menu in Hardy, but before then you needed to do things manually.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:07 PM, david <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've bought an ASUS laptop which has some strange keyboard configurations.
>
> How do you customise the keyboard layout in Hardy? The system preferences
> tool only does specific pre-ordained layouts like Dvorak etc. I want to make
> keys do odd things (eg, the "enter" key to become a period... it makes sense
> when you see the layout)
>
> What I need is a tool or config file to make any given key do exactly what
> *I* want it to do.
>
> thanks
>
> David.
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