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I'm going to try 2.2.4 and see if it works any better.  If not....linux may
have to wait until I get another computer to play with.
Doc Wright
http://wrightplaceinc.net
If we can't look at ourselves, and ask, why?
then where does the learning start?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: Laptop keymap... was: battery on notebook


Thanks, Terry. And please forgive me for not remembering that you were
the one who did this great work. I wrote that message in a great hurry
inbetween two con calls this afternoon! <grin>

Oh, and thanks for the great job. Between your keymappings and software
speech, Speakup with a laptop on the road is just an entirely new
dimension.

Terry D. Cudney writes:
> 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
>
> -- 
>
> Name: Terry D. Cudney
> Phone: (705) 422-0039
> E-mail: terry at wasaga.dyns.net
>
> Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like...
> having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool.
>
> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
>
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-- 

Janina Sajka, Chair
Accessibility Workgroup
Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040


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