Using META and DEL keys in console

[Alejandro Pulver]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:40:25 -0600 (CST)
Lars Eighner <eighner at io.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alejandro Pulver wrote:
> 
> > Where is the (complete) list of scancodes and which keys produce
> > them?
> >
> > If there is not, as I think, how can I know what scancode is
> > produced by each key in my keyboard (a program, maybe)?
> 
> As a practical matter, for the console keyboard I generally work
> backwards from a known keymap (one of the distribution keymaps),
> and cut and try.  man 5 kbdmap lists all the values you can
> assign to key combinations (note the "5" - otherwise you are
> likely to get man 1 kbdmap by default).  Notice that you can
> use kbdmap or kbdcontrol to load a keymap to experiment with and
> you do not have to reboot to see what happens.  I find this
> works very well with American PC keyboards where there are only
> a handful of keys that are in doubt, even with fairly esoteric
> models, like butterflies with two keypads.
> 
> The distribution maps, after all, were not put together by crazy
> people, so the unshifted values of most of the keys are pretty
> logical.
> 
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Your answer helped me much.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Ale