Assigning a character to a function key

[feenberg-fCu/yNAGv6M at public.gmane.org (Daniel Feenberg)]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Dec 17, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Stephen Ronan wrote:
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>> In regard to 2, is there a way to assign "u" to a function key?
>> I'd be grateful for any advice on a good way to do that.
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> There is, but I don't have any sort of howto I can provide. The kernel 
> input subsystem has setkeycode/getkeycode functions that allow remapping 
> keys to different things, but I'm not sure offhand what sort of 
> userspace interface you'd use for that.

It is configurable - see:

   http://linux.die.net/man/5/keymaps

Daniel Feenberg

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