Assigning a character to a function key

[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On Dec 17, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Dec 17, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Stephen Ronan wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> I'm helping someone with a problem laptop. I've put 
>> Ubuntu-based Linux Mint on it, which is working well. The two 
>> major remaing problems are:
>> 1) it's reporting lots of bad sectors on the hard drive
>> 2) The "u" key doesn't work.
>> 
>> In regard to 1), I'm planning to use Spinrite, but am curious as 
>> to whether there may be any free programs that similarly can help 
>> with bad sector problem?
> 
> Um. Why not just buy a replacement hard drive? They're dirt-cheap these days. I wouldn't trust a drive that is chock full of bad sectors myself, anyway.
> 
>> In regard to 2, is there a way to assign "u" to a function key? 
>> I'd be grateful for any advice on a good way to do that.
> 
> There is, but I don't have any sort of howto I can provide. The kernel input subsystem has setkeycode/getkeycode functions that allow remapping keys to different things, but I'm not sure offhand what sort of userspace interface you'd use for that.

Googling for "linux remap key" yields some plausible results.

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