Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Hal”
November 11, 2010
Linux + Xorg : Remapping caps lock key to escape
In this post I’ll revisit the classical “how to remap caps lock into something useful” once again. In this post, I’ll show how to remap the caps lock key to have an extra Escape key, which is very useful for all VI/Vim users.
October 12, 2009
HAL + Xorg X server : Using HAL to set hardware specific configurations for Xorg Xserver
The Xorg X Server can now rely on HAL to get information about the hardware the machine is running. This allows the X Server to auto-configure most of its components such as keyboard / mouse / screen / graphic adapter. But there is still room for tweaking it if needed.
This post explains how to configure extra properties for a keyboard at the HAL level, so that X Server will correctly auto-configure it for you.