[Solved] Can’t remap Dell Inspiron Mini 1011 Brazilian Keyboard

[Member dariel.elias]

After exhaustive searches on the internet and here on the forum, I couldn’t find a solution to the situation I’m facing after changing the keyboard of my Dell Inspiron Mini 1011 netbook, which used to have an American standard keyboard, for the Brazilian standard.

Specifically, this model does not have the Control_R key, because in its place are the “slash”, “question” and “degree” options.

To remap that key, after some research, I ended up creating a file in the /usr/bin directory with the following command:

xmodmap -e "keycode 105 = slash question degree"

I included it on the session’s startup configuration file.

Apparently the solution worked for most applications except, so far, Mozilla Firefox. Another problem is that the “degree” option doesn’t work either.

I verified that AntiX 21 uses xkb as keyboard manager and not xmodmap.

However, the tutorials I checked on the internet related to xkb proved to be indecipherable for me, as I confess that I am a layman in programming.

So I had no alternative but to seek your help to find a way to solve this issue.

If anyone can help me, I’ll be grateful in advance.

These are my netbook data:

$ inxi -F
System:
Host: dariel-netbook Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32
Desktop: IceWM 2.9.7 Distro: antiX-21_386-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021
Machine:
Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 1011 v: A00
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: CN0Y53 v: A00 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell
v: A00 date: 03/20/2009
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 9.0 Wh (18.4%) condition: 48.8/48.8 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 10.0 min: 11.1
CPU:
Info: Single Core model: Intel Atom N270 bits: 32 type: MT cache:
L2: 512 KiB
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/1600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 1333
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics driver: i915
v: kernel
Device-2: Syntek Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024×600~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5
Audio:
Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY driver: wl
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: XXXXXXXXX
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: down mac: XXXXXXXX
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 5.22 GiB (4.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Gigabyte model: GP-GSTFS31120GNTD size: 111.79 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 107.99 GiB used: 5.22 GiB (4.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 1.5 GiB used: 260 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 158 Uptime: 1h 16m Memory: 991.1 MiB used: 616.8 MiB (62.2%)
Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06

[Member dariel.elias]

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After another thorough search, I found the solution for the remapping in this post:

[SOLVED] Firefox ignores xmodmap changes

So, if any moderator sees this answer, please change this topic to “solved”.

Thanks.

[Member madibi]

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I’m happy that you found that solution that solved your problem. It is noted for my future needs.

I should point out that I usually use xmodmap on Mac’s keyboards, mainly in order to have the same functions as my Italian keyboard when linux is installed (mainly antiX, Mx, Q4OS or Peppermint 10).
It still works, also in Firefox.

In one case I have a keyboard on which some coffee has been spilled. For this reason, some buttons no longer work. So some keys have been re-mapped using xmodmap.
Even here it works without issues or exceptions 🙂

thank you for sharing your experience 🙂

m

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