Vincent Lefevre wrote in
<[email protected]>:
|On 2026-07-31 19:37:41 +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
|> Jim and Claus, I respect that this decision is annoying to some older \
|> users.
|
|Well, Jim said that on his system, the key named "backspace" (or with
|a leftward arrow) on his keyboard sends the DEL character. But this
|character is normally recognized by ncurses as the <BackSpace> key,
|not the <Delete> key. Moreover, Jim also said that the Delete key of
|his keyboard sends ^H (instead of the usual escape sequence). So I
Well if both keys on his keyboard really send the same keycode,
then he should use xmodmap and/or dumpkeys/loadkeys to adjust the
keycodes accordingly.
|suspect that Jim will never get the curses <Delete> in Mutt, and the
|change won't affect him.
For example, though totally different thing, the G key of my old
laptop stopped working several weeks after i bought it. But
i bucked and did not send it in for repair, instead i was using it
from May 2019 to end of June 2026 with an adjusted xmodmap in my
~/.$HOSTNAME.xmodmaprc plus a system-start adjustment in my
/root/hosts/$HOSTNAME/system-hook
if [ "$1" = start ]; then
echo 'loadkeys: adjusting G key'
# dumpkeys/loadkeys
/usr/bin/loadkeys <<-_EOT
altgr keycode 33 = g
alt keycode 33 = g
shift alt keycode 33 = G
shift altgr keycode 33 = G
_EOT
elif [ "$1" = stop ]; then
:
fi
so i could reach g via f already for the login prompt.
How one can do this with systemd, i have no idea.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
