Question

I would like to map my “WASD” to the arrows.

I don’t like moving my hands around. I already fixed it for my editor by calling W for arrowUp.

But, how can I bind it for the entire system?
When I call W, I want it to call the arrow UP.

I can’t bind those keys one software at the time.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

-hbt

Answer 1

To determine the keycodes for keys on
your keyboard, you can run a program
called “xev”. When running, you just
press keys and you’ll see the codes
appear in the program. By keeping
track of these you can make changes to
the keys that need updating.

Then, you use a commandline program
called “xmodmap
(http://cf.ccmr.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/w3mman2html.cgi?xmodmap(1))”
to remap a keystroke. So for instance:

 xmodmap -e 'keycode 234=F2'

This would remap the key on the
keyboard that generates keycode signal
234 to now be treated as the “F2” key.
You can read the xmodmap documentation
online to determine how to refer to
various keystrokes.

So then you can build up a list of
xmodmap lines, and put them all in a
script that gets executed at login
time, so that your keyboard is mapped
the way you like.

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-354969.html