changing y and z keys back

iXaarii · 06-08-2005, 04:10 AM

I need to use some romanian characters sometimes so I use kxkb to change between keyboard layouts ... however I really hate it that y and z are switched. I tried switching them back by editing ro and ro2 from /etc/X11/xkb/symbols

what I did was switching the codes in the lines

key <AD06> { [ z, Z ] };
and
key <AB01> { [ y, Y ] };

then I did a reboot ... but it doesn't seem to have changed. Any sugestions?

keefaz · 06-09-2005, 01:30 PM

First find the keycode for 'z' and 'y' with xev tool
(in a xterm, type 'xev', then type 'z' and 'y' and
look the terminal output for keycode)

Once you have your keycodes, say
z=25 and y=29, try ;

Code:

xmodmap -e 'keycode 25 = y'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 29 = z'

iXaarii · 06-10-2005, 03:30 AM

but what keymapping will this modify? just active one or all?
I use english most of the time and then periodically when I really have to I quickly switch back and forth with kxkb by ctrl-alt-k.

keefaz · 06-10-2005, 04:01 AM

Well it is just 2 commands to type...

To roll back, just do the inverse :

Code:

xmodmap -e 'keycode 25 = z'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 29 = y'

You could put them in a script or in alias for more convenience

iXaarii · 06-16-2005, 07:21 AM

indeed the y key now did y instead of z (in romanian mode) .. but z didn't change (insetead w did z) ... however it all changes back when I switch to english layout (I do that a lot with kxkb and a shortcut).

KWTm · 06-25-2005, 09:31 PM

Quote:

xmodmap -e 'keycode 25 = z'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 29 = y'

Well, the reason it doesn't work is because keycode 25 is not the Z key; it's keycode 52 that's the Z key. Keycode 25 is (you guessed it!) the W key! So just put "52" instead of "25" in the example above.

For more info, check my posting about "xmodmap" that I've just posted (do a search on "xmodmap" and my username, "kwtm") or Google for info on "xmodmap", or type "man xmodmap" in a terminal to find out more. You might want to try the command "xmodmap -pke".