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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (19913)	6/5/1998 10:32:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Andy The Keymap application opens a window that shows you the current keymap--the characters you see on-screen when you press each key. You can select a system keymap and type on the keyboard or click keys in the Keymap window to see the resulting character in the field at the top of the window. If you press one or more modifier keys (Shift, Control, or Alt) on the keyboard or click them in the Keymap window, the keycaps change to show new characters mapped to the keys. Different fonts map characters to different keys. You can choose a font from the Font menu to see that font's mapping in the Keymap window. This is a useful way to look for characters you don't use often, such as bullets, accents, or other special characters. You can change the keymapping for your keyboard to support different languages or keyboard layouts. The BeOS comes with a number of preconfigured keymaps to choose from in the scrolling System keymaps list. To customize a keymap or create your own: 1. Choose any user or system keymap. 2. Click File and Save As and enter the name of your new keymap. 3. Make sure the keymap is being saved to /boot/home/config/settings/keymap. 4. To make the keymap selected in the Keymap window active, click the Use button in the lower- right corner. The new keymap is displayed in the User list. You can customize a keymap by using the second mouse button to drag characters on the keyboard to the keys you want to map them to. Remember, though, that if you drag the "c" to the "z" position, you'll have two "c"s and no "z." Each keymap is made up of nine mapping tables that show what each key produces when you type it with no modifier key pressed, or with the Shift, Control, or Alt key pressed, plus all the possible combinations of these keys. If you use the third mouse button to drag a character from one keycap to another, you actually drag all nine characters associated with that key in the nine tables in the keymap. To revert to the default keymap, choose one of the standard System keymaps. ******************************************************* From BeOS User Guide Customizing the BeOS** Using the Keymap Application be.com Also checkout the section Understanding Workspaces