Date:    Tue, 18 Apr 1995 15:13:12 +0600
From:    "William F. Macris" <wfmcn056@RAIL.CDEV.COM>
Subject: Kinesis keymapping on Sun workstations

Here's a script that I wrote to remap the keycodes on the Kinesis.
As it comes from the manufacturer, certain keys don't correspond to
the X keycodes from a Sun type 4 keyboard. According to Kinesis Tech
Support, one has to remap the embedded keypad keys to the "normal"
keypad to get the cursor keys to work.

I found that the following keys had either no or undesirable effect:
Home, End, Page Up, Page Down, arrow key up/down/left/right, Insert

I deciphered the keycode that _was_ being sent and then reassigned the
correct actions to the unrecognized keycode. This way I avoided doing the
remapping on the Kinesis itself.

In the process, I also decided to give myself the useful functionality of
the left-hand (L-keys) which are missing on the Kinesis:
F1 is undo
F2 is Cut
F3 is Copy
F4 is Paste
F5 is Front
F6 is Open

Of course, this overrides the "normal" keypresses for F1..F6
but I never used them anyway.

The only local changes that I've made on the keyboard are:
        Swap the ESC and CAPS LOCK (since I use escape a lot in vi)

        Override the left CTRL onto the right CTRL. The default action
        is to give an ALT on that key which I never use. I'd rather have
        both CTRLs available for vi/emacs key sequences.

This is a csh script but if you use another shell then I think you
can just change the first line to the full pathname of your shell.
You could also put these in your login script but they do take a while
to run so I prefer to execute them once the system is up...

Enjoy!

willie

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#/bin/csh
# remap the undetected keys of the kinesis to the correct keysyms
xmodmap -e "keycode  12 = F14 F14 Undo"
xmodmap -e "keycode  13 = F20 F20 SunCut"
xmodmap -e "keycode  15 = F16 F16 SunCopy"
xmodmap -e "keycode  17 = F18 F18 SunPaste"
xmodmap -e "keycode  19 = F15 F15 SunFront"
xmodmap -e "keycode  21 = F17 F17 SunOpen"
xmodmap -e "keycode  27 = Up F28 KP_8"
xmodmap -e "keycode  31 = Left F30 KP_4"
xmodmap -e "keycode 130 = F35 F35 KP_3 Next"
xmodmap -e "keycode  34 = Down F34 KP_2"
xmodmap -e "keycode  35 = Right F32 KP_6"
xmodmap -e "keycode  59 = F27 F27 KP_7 Home"
xmodmap -e "keycode  81 = F33 F33 KP_1 End"
xmodmap -e "keycode  51 = Insert Insert KP_0"
xmodmap -e "keycode 103 = F29 F29 KP_9 Prior"