i have a us keyboard layout on my laptop, and i'm trying to map a key for the '£' sign. there are 2 keys on the bottom left [next to the up-down arrows] which are for the $ and euro symbols but they dont work at all... although i have another $ key so i dont need another one. what i do need is a key for the £ sign, and i want to change the extra $ key to do that. while i'm at it, i might as well get the currently defunct euro key to give the euro symbol. any pointers on how to do this?

Couldn't you just change the keymap to British? Then Shft+3 would be pound and Shft+4 would be dollar.

but that would change keys for other symbols like @ and " etc. wouldnt it

There is a 'simple' (well, it's simple once it's solved, just like everything else...) solution, providing you're using X - xmodmap

http://web.mit.edu/answers/xwindows/...s_xmodmap.html

I had a situation where my letter 'g' key fell off the keyboard (laptop) and I don't feel like having it repaired, so I remapped the 'g' key to the 'windows' key (which, obviously, is never needed)

So, in my /home is the .Xmodmap as follows:

keycode 115 = g

cheers,

Depends whether you're talking about the console or X.

Console keymaps live under /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/*, edit your us map and reload it with loadkeys. Or copy it to a custom name and modify your rc file to load that one (/etc/rc.d/rc.kbd on Slackware).

In X, create ~/.Xmodmap and put 'xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap' in your .xinitrc/.xsession.

e.g. In X, I have £ on Mode-Switch + 3.

Thus, I get a £ by pressing shift-altgr-3, though this might be a bit cumbersome for you if you need to use £ a lot. Of course, you can bind it to whatever you want. Use xev to find out the keycodes.

The console keymap uses a similar syntax, I have this:

So shift-3 is # and altgr-3 is £.

Specifically those two would switch positions.

Personally, my laptop keyboard is UK layout, but I have mine mapped to a US layout because I'm more used to it. The only thing I don't have is a pound sign but I don't really need it.

thanks for your responses

both actually, but for now i'd be happy to get it on X. i tried both xev and xkeycaps, but it seems that those 2 keys are not recognised at all by the system, i.e, on xev i get nothing when i press them.
i'm running an acer travelmate 2312 nlci machine, and in my keyboard layout i've specified 'acer travelmate 800' since thats the closest match in the list. is that a problem?
how do i get the system to acknowledge these 2 keys?

Ctrl-Shift-a3 seems to also work.