Changing 'Home' Key?

[vlmarshall]

After accidentally hitting the 'Home' key, and losing my setup once again, I must ask; Is there a way to change the 'Home' function to a different key, or a multiple-kepress? Something like Ctrl-Home would be great... or anything that's not so close to the END key.

[chester88]

If you are serious about this you should ask on the emc maillist or file a bug request on source forge. The developers of AXIS don't really check on here much.

[cyclestart]

Can you live with the key remapped in a universal kind of way ?
ie: permanently for all applications ?
An ugly hack but not hard to do .

Assigning keys in EMC is surely possible, and would be a more elegant solution.

Edit/ A quick google suggests you want to alter the file .axisrc to change keyboard bindings. That's assuming you use axis, Maybe it's in the integrators manual ?

[vlmarshall]

Originally Posted by cyclestart Can you live with the key remapped in a universal kind of way ? ie: permanently for all applications ? An ugly hack but not hard to do .

I've considered making a new, flatter keycap, or adding a second, stiffer spring under the existing Home key.

Originally Posted by cyclestart Assigning keys in EMC is surely possible, and would be a more elegant solution... A quick google suggests you want to alter the file .axisrc to change keyboard bindings. That's assuming you use axis, Maybe it's in the integrators manual ?

Thanks, I'll try actually READING the directions!

[cyclestart]

Originally Posted by vlmarshall I've considered making a new, flatter keycap, or addind a second, stiffer spring under the existing Home key.

Hey, my kind of user ! Makes what I'm about to suggest a little less embarrassing.

In a terminal type the command;
xev

As the keys are pressed information will print in the terminal. what you're looking for is the keycode and the name of the key. On my board;
Windows key -> keycode 116, name Super_R
Home key -> keycode 97, name Home

Now close the little applet window xev popped ip and use the command;

 nano   .Xmodmap

in the nano editor (using this particular example);

 keycode 97 = Super_R
keycode 116 = Home

After a logout the keys should be switched. The .Xmodmap file is a hidden file in your home directory that will be read every startup.

I can't think of what other function the Windows key is used for, which only makes me more sure it's something critical

[vlmarshall]

Great tip, but I'm hoping for some key COMBINATION for homing...although, I suppose I could remove the Windows keys instead of the Home key, like I've currently done.

Originally Posted by cyclestart Hey, my kind of user ! Makes what I'm about to suggest a little less embarrassing.

Embarassing? Hey, I pulled off my keys and engraved them with the EMC function on their fronts!



Filled in with differently-coloured crayons, they show up quite nicely.

[cyclestart]

Impressive
I'm more of the felt marker and masking tape type,

Here's something you could try. It seems to work in emc 2.2.8.

In gedit paste in this text

# Bind cntrl and p to home active axis
root_window.bind("", commands.home_axis)

and save the file as .axisrc
This assumes you don't already have a .axisrc file with some contents.

Remember I said seems to work. Can anyone confirm this is safe ??

EDIT/ between the quotation marks in the code above
<
Control-p
>

without the newlines, just like a single word. This site's has lousy code tags and I'm not sure what combination of backslashes or whatever needs to be used to fool it.

[cyclestart]

Good thing this isn't a programming site

here it is as a text file for clarity
save link as

EDIT/ allright

# Bind cntrl and p to home active axis
root_window.bind("<Control-p>", commands.home_axis)

Being stubborn is it's own reward/punishment

[vlmarshall]

Originally Posted by cyclestart Impressive ... and save the file as .axisrc This assumes you don't already have a .axisrc file with some contents.

Save it as what? Something with the .axisrc extension... where do I save it?

[cyclestart]

Originally Posted by vlmarshall Save it as what? Something with the .axisrc extension... where do I save it?

No.
. [dot] files are hidden files. So paste that text into a text editor and save the file as .axisrc ([dot]axisrc). If your emc configuration files are in /home/username/ directory (and they probably are), save .axisrc in your username directory. Emc should find it.

Hidden files can be seen in a terminal:
ls -a
or, if you have a lot of files
ls -a | less

Or by choosing to view hidden files in the gui file browser.

Sorry for babbling on again and maybe repeating things you already know. I love this linux stuff

[MarcoBernardini]

Originally Posted by vlmarshall Great tip, but I'm hoping for some key COMBINATION for homing...although, I suppose I could remove the Windows keys instead of the Home key, like I've currently done. Embarassing? Hey, I pulled off my keys and engraved them with the EMC function on their fronts! Filled in with differently-coloured crayons, they show up quite nicely.

The keyboard remapping suggested by cyclestart works smoothly in Linux... I guess I'm one of the few having things like √ ½ ¾ ⅛ «» and even ☺ on the alt-shift combinations of my keyboard.
Your engraved keys are really wonderful... I suggest you to sell them to gamers too!