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Alex G
Asked: 2012-05-30 13:50:50 +0800 CST

How to remap shift-space to underscore in linux (not GNOME or KDE)

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I do a lot of shell scripting in linux (running xmonad window manager, so I can use xmodmap or xinput, but not GNOME or KDE control panels), and it would be super useful for a shift-space keystroke to output an underscore ("_") character. Any ideas how to do this?

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    The following xmodmap expression will map Shift+Space to underscore. Add this to ~/.Xmodmaprc and run xmodmap ~/.Xmodmaprc during startup to make it persistent.

    xmodmap -e 'keycode 65 = space underscore space'
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  2. Have you been through keymap, loadkeys, etc - http://linux.die.net/man/5/keymaps . It's the same idea but for the kernel and the keyboard driver. You should be able to take your present layout and just add a couple of lines.

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