[OFB Cafe] keyboard remapping, etc.

[dep]

i hate to interrupt the arguing, in which i very much intend to not 
participate, to ask a question about something involving linux, x, or 
both.

i have acquired one of these:
http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/122keyterkey.html

it's the version that works on a pc without emilation software. it also has 
a lot of keys which appear to be of no particular use, but could be. 
(unicomp bought the ibm keyboard company, so it is the only place where 
model m keyboards can be purchased new.)

anyway. it has f13-f24, which are apparently the same scancodes as shift+f1 
through shift+f12. it also has a number of keys that have labels such as a 
cents sign (shifted, it is a vertical line, though on the keycap it is not 
split as is the pipe key), which would be useful if it worked, but it 
appears not to, at least in x. there are also a "help" key, a "record" 
key, a "play" key, an -- ugh -- windows key, and a key that brings up the 
left mouse button menu! the ctrl keys offer multiple-key options that 
include reset and quit. none of these appear to work, either.

(it is not one of those macro-recording keyboards that have a little dab of 
memory so that macros can be assigned to the f13-f24 keys, so that's not 
what the record/play keys are for. (there is also a key which is a 
reverse-tab key, the insert key, with modifiers that do not appear to work 
offers "dup" and "zoom," and so on.)

it would be fun to do something with all these extra keys. in kde, it's a 
simple enough thing to go to the keyboard shortcuts setup and give the f 
keys functions. but i'd also like to make use of some of the others. for 
instance, the cents sign would come in handy from time to time, and 
assigning the copyright symbol to a key might be good (i was thinking the 
windows key -- that would be appropriate).

i vaguely remember there being an app that made remapping the keyboard a 
fairly simple thing. but i cannot for the life of me find it.

anyone know of such a thing?

thanks!
-- 
dep

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