Showing posts with label Keyboard remapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keyboard remapping. Show all posts

Monday, September 10, 2012

Remap Keyboard: Assign not working keys to different keys


Laptop keyboards are not always the greatest quality, and after some time it might have a key or few keys not working. When they are vital keys, it really is a game stopper. In my case I had the "BackSpace" and "Enter/Return" keys not working.
"PgUp" and "PgDn" are handy but you can go without them. So I decided to give the "PgUp" key the BackSpace function, and the "PgDn" the Enter/Return function.
Here is How:



First find the Keycode:

In a terminal screen, type xev to find key codes. type "BackSpace", "Return/Enter", "PgUp", "PgDn", and then close the xev function.
You should see following: