Re: copy/paste keys

On Dec 7, 12:56 pm, Aggelos <a..._at_vergina.dyndns.org> wrote:
> I would like your help on the following situation:
> Anybody who has worked with oracle forms 6i on solaris on sparc machines with sun keyboard, should know the usefulness of the "dedicated" keys
> copy, paste (and cut) that the sun keyboards have. Therefore, working with the same application in 6i oracle forms in Linux, on a PC with a
> common/standard pc keyboard, I have been trying to "assign", in some way, the operation of the above keys, to two keys of a standard PC
> keyboard, e.g. to the two keys, found immediately to the right of the Right_ALT.
> I tried with xmodmap, but with no luck, not even in the gnome-terminal, in gnome (2.20.x) environment that I use. :-(
> Has anyone accomplished such a thing? Any advice?
> Aggelos

Been way too long since I did this, but as I recall, the secret was to run a program that shows what each key is generating so you can make the right x mapping. Just can't quite remember the name of that program. Mighta been showkey http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html#s1 (sorry I'm not on linux right now).

jg

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