Remapping Keys

Hello,
Just picked up my MBP with a French versioned Keyboard. Basically the same thing as English but there are a few extra keys that make the "ENTER" and left "SHIFT" keys a bit smaller. Problem is I'm so used to my old PB english key layout that the smaller Enter & Shift keys are bugging my typing speed. What i'm looking for is a keyboard remap tool that will allow me to change the Ù and À to SHIFT and ENTER respectfully. I found a software ucontrol but it is only supported on Panther. Anyone have any ideas on what I can do? I know i'll eventually get used to it but it would be nice to change the keys regardless.
cheers
Amit

This isn't as clear-cut as it seems. Some applications may hard-code the "key-code" they listen for to interpret as "enter" and "shift". That that they're doing things right, just that it's not always done consistently.
I'd recommend just getting used to the new keyboard layout, rather than trying to change key mappings.

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Commit Log for Thu Nov 22 09:20:16 2012
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firefox (16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1) to 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
firefox-branding (16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1) to 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
firefox-gnome-support (16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1) to 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
firefox-locale-en (16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1) to 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
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'''''Worked with xmodmap:'''''
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'''''Did Not Work with xmodmap:'''''
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[SOLVED] Trying to remap keys in X/GDM/Gnome 3

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I'm trying to remap my ESC key to the Caps Lock key for more convenience in Vim. I placed the following in ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xprofile:
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! Swap caps lock and escape
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keyboard: mapping scan code 217 (0xd9) to key code 191 (0xbf)
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Last edited by kejingzhang (2013-10-10 02:32:29)

Thanks plam and Raynman for your help . Follow your hints, I succeed the swapping key task in an alternative method.
Using the command 'setkeycodes' and adding these commands into a systemd controlled service script, keymaps are exchanged as gdm started.
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Created a file with filename custom-keys.service under /etc/systemd/system. Add the following context to the file.
[Unit]
Description=Keymap Custom
Requires=gdm.service
After=gdm.service
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/setkeycodes 1 58
ExecStart=/usr/bin/setkeycodes 3a 1
ExecStart=/usr/bin/setkeycodes e01d 100
ExecStart=/usr/bin/setkeycodes e038 97
[Install]
WantedBy=graphical.target
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