[mdlug] Remapping Backspace key

[Matthew Krauss]

Hi all,

In my never-ending quest to perfect my keyboard layout, I've tripped on 
the backspace and fallen down in to the cracks where all the crumbs and 
dust are.  I want to swap backspace and backslash, but it won't work.

The backslash/pipe key takes on the aspect and attribute of the 
backspace just fine (and I love it!)

The backspace key is more picky.  It just refuses to generate a pipe.  
Hitting backspace generates a backslash, and hitting shift-backspace 
generates a... drum roll... backslash.

Googling turns up some  other mention of this problem:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/xfree86-list/2003-September/msg00028.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/03/msg00053.html

At the first link, the question is asked, but not answered.

At the second link, someone gives a rough explanation of why this 
happens and it is not considered a bug, and a link to a French-language 
workaround for a similar situation.  I tried to adapt the workaround (I 
don't speak French, but Bash was our common language); but it didn't work.

I'll post the details of that attempt if anyone thinks it would be 
helpful, BUT I am really hoping someone has a better approach.  Ideas 
anyone?

Thanks,
Matthew Krauss