How to make keymap work in terminal?

Question

Hey, I have an unsual problem, my enter button on my laptop keyboard doesn't work, so i'm using an usb keyboard atm. but this is not very handy when i'm at school, and I actually only need the enter button for booting up and logging in to arch linux.
I tried using xmodmap to make an alias for my enter key, binding it to the Right Windows Button:
xmodmap -e "keysym Super_R = Return"
but this only works when X is started, is there any way to modify my keyboard setup so I can use my windows button in both the terminal, and in X? Thank you in advance
Last edited by Paaskehare (2008-11-09 22:18:35)

Answer 1

In X I also use xmodmap, but for the text console I had to modify the keymaps in:
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/pt-latin1.map.gz
pt-latin1.map.gz is my kbd map, as of KEYMAP="pt-latin1" in rc.conf.
I wanted to change the binding called guillemotleft that I have no use for, to '/', so I copied pt-latin1.map.gz to
pt-latin1jp.map.gz and edited it (gunzip it if necessary, gzip it again when ready).
The difference between both files is:
< keycode 13 = guillemotleft guillemotright
> keycode 13 = slash guillemotright guillemotleft
All I had to do now was to change in '/etc/rc.conf':  KEYMAP="pt-latin1jp"
Mektub