[ale] MacBook Linux

[James Sumners]

You mean someone actually uses the insert key? Wow. I hate that key.

Anyway, the simplest solution would be to define a remapping your
~/.xmodmap file. For example:

`keycode 121 = Insert`

in ~/.xmodmap should remap the F15 key (which a MacBook does not have)
to the insert key. To determine the key code for the key you want to
remap do something like:

`xmodmap -pk | grep F11`

That will give you the key code for the the F11 key. The first field
will be the key code.

If you want to test the mapping without having to restart X, do
`xmodmap -e "keycode 121 = Insert"` as appropriate.

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 2:19 PM, James Taylor
<James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:
> The second issue, which is a major problem because of some of the remote system utilities I need to run, is the lack of an insert key.
>
> I've been all over the web trying to find a solution for this.  Once you get past the 90% of the responses that start out "Macs don't need an insert key, you're stoopid to need one..", almost all the rest have to do with how to work around it when running OSX or Windows using parallels or bootcamp.
>
> I suspect there should be an easy way to map a key for this, but I haven't been able to find the simple one-click solution that I'd really like to find.
>
> Does any one have any ideas on this?


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