Ubuntu has a place called “Startup Applications Preferences” which is one way to organise something that runs upon startup. It is found by typing its name in the searchy thingy I don’t know the name of, and is a bit GUIish.<\/p>\n
Because I use a Kinesis Advantage keyboard, I wanted to automatically swap the roles of the Tab and Delete keys upon startup. Here I record how to do this.<\/p>\n
In the aforementioned “Startup Applications Preferences”, I create a new process, with the command section filled in with<\/p>\n
It remains to create a file called .xmodstartup in my home directory, which I populate with the following xmodmap commands<\/p>\n And voila, upon startup, the Tab and Delete keys are switched.<\/p>\n If I ever want to undo this, and return to the default keyboard layout, this can be accomplished with running the following in a terminal<\/p>\n This blog post exists to help my future self solve the same problem when I forget, and hopefully may help others who stumble upon it while searching the web to try and solve the same problem as me.<\/p>\n Now, next thing to do is to understand how to make the Windows\/Super key behave exactly as I want it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ubuntu has a place called “Startup Applications Preferences” which is one way to organise something that runs upon startup. It is found by typing its name in the searchy thingy I don’t know the name of, and is a bit … Continue reading bash .xmodstartup<\/code><\/p>\nxmodmap -e 'keycode 119 = Tab ISO_Left_Tab'
\nxmodmap -e 'keycode 23 = Delete NoSymbol'
\n<\/code><\/p>\nsetxkbmap -layout us
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