In the comments to my previous post about remapping keys on the keyboard of my N810 there was a mention of editing the X server keyboard mapping file at /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-44, which I assumed was a pretty nasty hack. But Daniel Stone, who does the X server development for Maemo, said that it wasn’t a hack at all. xmodmap is the hack.
Yesterday I was starting to get annoyed at having to manually load the mapping at every reboot (cause I have to reboot frequently to get GPS working again, groan), so I swapped techniques. The format of the file is pretty easy to understand, use “bar” where you want to put the pipe symbol and “Tab” where you want to put tab. And while I was in there digging at it I changed my mappings to, I made Fn-space the tab key instead of using semicolon. Just seems like a more intuitive setup.
any ideas about doing something similar to a N800 running 08 and using a bluetooth keyboard?
i bought a scandinavian version of the freedom universal bluetooth keyboard, and they have moved one key, without rewiring it. so the N800 see it as one key while the keyboard shows something different (and i cant use the altgr+shift combo as the keyboard fails to send the last key for one of the symbols wanted).
never mind, i had only to swap the LSGT and BKSL line in the no symbols file.
i guess that a similar swap in the se and dk files should work for swedish and danish users as well.