On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 02:33 PM, SanskritFritz said:
> I have fought with this problem for a while, but went the other
> direction (disabling the alt-left/right keys in the console), can you
> maybe help me with this?
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101863
Note A: I encourage you to switch to using ctrl-left/right for Fish and
keep alt-left/right reserved for switching vconsoles. But either way,
you will need to use loadkeys to get $meta + left/right working with
Fish in the vconsoles. I encourage this because, as you've discovered,
it is harder to change the vconsole keybindings so when you work on a
different machine or someone works on your machine, you will be
creating unneeded surprises that I can't fix without the help of Google.
These are usually emergency situations where you want as few surprises
as possible and a surprise like this can lead you down the wrong path.
I speak from experience, having previously taken the route you want to
follow.
Note B: the dumpkeys and loadkeys commands must be run from within a
vconsole. They won't work inside of X.
Step 0: Switch to a vconsole
Step 1: Create a copy of your current keymap:
$ cd # or create a directory to hold your
# keymap file and cd to it
$ dumpkeys > defkeymap.orig
$ cp defkeymap.orig custom-keymap
Step 2: Edit custom-keymap
2.a: Change every instance of Decr_Console to Meta_b
2.b: Change every instance of Incr_Console to Meta_f
Step 3: Save the file and load the new keymap
$ sudo loadkeys custom-keymap
you can undo your changes with:
$ sudo loadkeys defkeymap.orig
Step 4) Make your changes permanent
I suggest grep'ing around /etc/init.d to see if there is a startup
script that loads a keymap for you. In Gentoo it is /etc/init.d/keymaps
in Debian based Mepis & antiX it is /etc/init.d/keymaps.sh. The Gentoo
script gets its data from /etc/conf.d/keymaps.
I tend to keep my custom keymap in /usr/share/keymaps/
Note C: If you instead want to have ctrl-left/right work in Fish in the
vconsoles then don't delete any lines from custom-keymap and instead
add the lines (leading tabs, not spaces):
control keycode 105 = Meta_b
control keycode 106 = Meta_f
Note D: I've only used Meta_b and Meta_f once on one machine. I found
them by experimenting. YMMVG.
Peace, James
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