Laptop keymap... was: battery on notebook

[Ameer Armaly]

>From what I understand (and have seen), it's fairly easy to edit the keymap 
right now.
A statement like " spk key_numleft = prev_char" makes a bit of sense to me 
at least (note that I haven't looked at a keymap in 3 months or more, so 
don't go quoting me on the syntax anyone). As to building keymaps from 
scratch, a solution would be farily easy; you'd need ncurses, cbreak, a list 
of  speakup functions... I'm going on a tangent.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry D. Cudney" <terry at wasaga.dyns.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:41 PM
Subject: Laptop keymap... was: battery on notebook


> Hi all,
>
> Yes, Janina, you are right here. It is part of the speakup patches applied 
> when you select speakup in the configuration of your kernel. I designed 
> the keymapping to emulate the numeric keypad layout for the most part. 
> David Borowski integrated it into the speakup patches and Kirk included it 
> with them in CVS speakup.
>
> This was done over a year ago, and David  said that he was thinking of 
> making user-definable keymappings easy at that time, I haven't heard from 
> him in a long time. So I don't know if this is still in his 'to-do' list 
> or not.
>
> I haven't messed with it since last year so I can't explain 
> accurately/briefly what would be needed to alter the keymappings. However, 
> it should not be too hard to do. Essentially, what you would need to do to 
> customize your keymap to personal preference is:
>
> After applying the CVS patches for speakup, modify the keymap definitions 
> in:
>
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup/speakupmap.map
>
> to suit your preferences. Then compile/install the kernel as normal and 
> Congratulations! you now have your very own keymap definition.
>
> I'd suggest not doing this unless you are comfortable with compiling the 
> kernel. ... and if something breaks... well, like Kirk says, "You get to 
> keep all the pieces"!
>
> Read on...
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:56:04PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> Sure is, and probably installed by default.
>>
>> The capslock key becomes the Speakup modifier. The rest is a la pop up
>> keyboard, e.g. CapsLock-I is read current line and CapsLock-O is read
>> next line.
>>
>> This isn't laptop specific. You can do it on a full 104 if you want to
>> save your shoulder. I'm trying to do this more and more because my
>> shoulder is showing signs of repetitive stress after 20 years of
>> computing. I've even looked around for a keyboard with a left-handed
>> numeric keypad because of that, but the pop up screen review is smarter.
> Glad you like it Janina! I use it on all my keyboards too. But not 
> everyone likes the same layout! :-0
>
>> What I have been meaning to ask Kirk and the others who work on coding
>> these things is how hard or easy it might be to provide a means to flip
>> the qwerty definitions. For example, to split bilaterally down the
>> qwerty between g and h so that CapsLock (or left alt or some such) plus
>> E becomes current line.
> You can do that if you want. See above.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> --terry
>
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