xmodmap Right CTRL to work as Right SHIFT

Question

I've tried searching a lot with no success. I know this can be done because I have done it before, but since then I've reinstalled the OS.

I know that I used xmodmap to do this the last time.

My reasoning for this is because both shift keys are broken on my laptop so I've trained myself to use right-ctrl as right-shift.

I know that my laptop has right-ctrl as keycode 105. As far as I can tell left shift is keycode 50 and right shift is keycode 62.

I've tried doing the following things:

xmodmap -e 'keycode 105 = Shift_R' (this shows the right-ctrl key as being right-shift under xev but pressing it actually does nothing)

xmodmap -e 'keycode 105 = 62' (this outputs >)

xmodmap -e 'keycode 105 = 50' (this outputs 2)

Can someone please show me what I need to do in order to make this work and make it work as a permanent change? This is an unusable OS for me until I can do this. I manged this in Windows in just a few minutes! :(

Answer 1

In order to edit a special key/signal, you have to clear it in the beginning of ~/.Xmodmap. For example:

clear Shift_R

and then add the new signals at the end of ~/.Xmodmap. It may be helpful: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmodmap

Write your expressions in ~/.Xmodmap to make the changes permanent.