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Some keys in my keyboard came to a sticky end after a catastrophic coke spill.
I do not intend to replace the old keyboard, since the whole laptop will be replaced next year.



The keys in question are: arrow up, arrow down, shift and '/'.



Shift has a twin brother on the west coast, who's doing all the work now, and I could rewire '/' as 'delete' (now I realize this was a totally useless key) with the xmodmap -e 'keycode 119=/' command. That is, pressing 'delete' outputs a '/' now.



To discover how to replace the keys I use xev. I intend to replace arrow-up and arrow-down for pgup and pgdn respectively. Unhappily arrow-up/down do not have output. I know that pgup and pgdn are keycodes 112 and keycodes 117. But what should I fill in in the xmodmap -e 'keycode <value>=<action>' pattern asxmodmap -e 'keycode 112=' and xmodmap -e 'keycode 117='










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    Some keys in my keyboard came to a sticky end after a catastrophic coke spill.
    I do not intend to replace the old keyboard, since the whole laptop will be replaced next year.



    The keys in question are: arrow up, arrow down, shift and '/'.



    Shift has a twin brother on the west coast, who's doing all the work now, and I could rewire '/' as 'delete' (now I realize this was a totally useless key) with the xmodmap -e 'keycode 119=/' command. That is, pressing 'delete' outputs a '/' now.



    To discover how to replace the keys I use xev. I intend to replace arrow-up and arrow-down for pgup and pgdn respectively. Unhappily arrow-up/down do not have output. I know that pgup and pgdn are keycodes 112 and keycodes 117. But what should I fill in in the xmodmap -e 'keycode <value>=<action>' pattern asxmodmap -e 'keycode 112=' and xmodmap -e 'keycode 117='










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      Some keys in my keyboard came to a sticky end after a catastrophic coke spill.
      I do not intend to replace the old keyboard, since the whole laptop will be replaced next year.



      The keys in question are: arrow up, arrow down, shift and '/'.



      Shift has a twin brother on the west coast, who's doing all the work now, and I could rewire '/' as 'delete' (now I realize this was a totally useless key) with the xmodmap -e 'keycode 119=/' command. That is, pressing 'delete' outputs a '/' now.



      To discover how to replace the keys I use xev. I intend to replace arrow-up and arrow-down for pgup and pgdn respectively. Unhappily arrow-up/down do not have output. I know that pgup and pgdn are keycodes 112 and keycodes 117. But what should I fill in in the xmodmap -e 'keycode <value>=<action>' pattern asxmodmap -e 'keycode 112=' and xmodmap -e 'keycode 117='










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      Some keys in my keyboard came to a sticky end after a catastrophic coke spill.
      I do not intend to replace the old keyboard, since the whole laptop will be replaced next year.



      The keys in question are: arrow up, arrow down, shift and '/'.



      Shift has a twin brother on the west coast, who's doing all the work now, and I could rewire '/' as 'delete' (now I realize this was a totally useless key) with the xmodmap -e 'keycode 119=/' command. That is, pressing 'delete' outputs a '/' now.



      To discover how to replace the keys I use xev. I intend to replace arrow-up and arrow-down for pgup and pgdn respectively. Unhappily arrow-up/down do not have output. I know that pgup and pgdn are keycodes 112 and keycodes 117. But what should I fill in in the xmodmap -e 'keycode <value>=<action>' pattern asxmodmap -e 'keycode 112=' and xmodmap -e 'keycode 117='







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          See /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h for the available key names:



          xmodmap -e 'keycode 112=Up'
          xmodmap -e 'keycode 117=Down'


          (the prefixes need to be removed).






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            See /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h for the available key names:



            xmodmap -e 'keycode 112=Up'
            xmodmap -e 'keycode 117=Down'


            (the prefixes need to be removed).






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              See /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h for the available key names:



              xmodmap -e 'keycode 112=Up'
              xmodmap -e 'keycode 117=Down'


              (the prefixes need to be removed).






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                See /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h for the available key names:



                xmodmap -e 'keycode 112=Up'
                xmodmap -e 'keycode 117=Down'


                (the prefixes need to be removed).






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                See /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h for the available key names:



                xmodmap -e 'keycode 112=Up'
                xmodmap -e 'keycode 117=Down'


                (the prefixes need to be removed).







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