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Emulate keyboard key "left"

I spilled some cola over my laptop and now, two months later, the left key is not working anymore. I was hoping that I could get around this by emulating this key with, for example, "ctrl+right_key" or "ctrl+page_up". I really need a clever solution to this until I get someone from Acer to look at it.

I tried to do this in .xmodmaprc

Code:

keysym home = home left

keysym right = right left

This should have made "shift+home" and "shift+right" to work as left, but it did not want to work. Does anyone have any ideas?

Regards.

You could make an xkb keyboard map... it's not that hard and should work.
Basically, look in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc for your keyboard map, and either modify the entry you normally use (easier) or create a new one (you'll probably have to add an entry to another file or two in the xkb dir (use a search)). There's some help files in the xkb dir. I'll leave you to experiment...