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  Friday 20 December 2002
My keyboard layout, for Windows and Solaris

Here is my copy of a scan code table that I found on the web some months ago.

I took the almost-a-text-file (Unicode stuff maybe?) that contains my Windows keyboard layout, as input commands for the regedit program, and put it here, as "MyKeyLayout_WORKs.txt".

This procedure has worked for me, on at least Win2000 and WinXP:

  • Take the text file MyKeyLayout_WORKs.txt and RENAME it to "be" a .reg file MyKeyLayout_WORKs.reg.
  • Start regedit:
    Start_Menu -> RUN ... and type in regedit.
  • Optional, I believe, but I like to see the thing working:
    Navigate from "My Computer" down to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout
  • Use regedit's menu
    On XP: File -> Import ...
    On W2k: Registry->Import Registry File ...

    That should just merge in the new Scancode Map.

  • REBOOT. Hope that you will learn how to use the new keyboard quickly :-)

There's some of the xmodmap stuff at http://radio.weblogs.com/0100945/gems/xm/. Apparently I put it there in May, just before I started my current job. One of these days, I'll dig up the actual files that I use at work these days.

Later: Nevermind. I do not use any actual Solaris keyboard remapping these days, because I only connect to the Solaris machine at work via my PC, which already has its keyboard remapped.
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