help to complete emergency keyboard remapping

[bruce]

spare keyboards and a few spare usb mice..  never hurts


On Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 4:49 PM Robert Moskowitz via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 8/17/25 2:56 PM, Little Girl wrote:
> > Hey there,
> >
> > Marco Fioretti wrote:
> >
> >> after years of intensive typing, the Down arrow key on my keyboard
> >> just broke (mechanically, I mean), I NEED it badly to quickly scroll
> >> up and down big text files because I have a deadline tomorrow and
> >> for several reasons cannot get any other keyboard before Wednesday
> >> morning
> > I thought I'd add that I have expensive taste in keyboards because
> > I'm really hard on them (brutal would probably be a more accurate
> > word), so I can't keep backups of them around. Instead, I buy the
> > cheapest keyboard I can find (a search just now turned one up for
> > less than $12 on a well-known shopping site we all use) and stash it
> > in a closet for an emergency like the one you're having. It's no fun
> > to use, but it will work and will get you through until you replace it
> > with one you like.
> >
> > I also tend to stash old, mostly-good keyboards if what broke on them
> > is something that isn't used often, like one of the numpad keys. A
> > keyboard like that will do in a pinch until I can get a new one.
>
> I recently finally dumped all the PS/2 keyboards in my stash....
>
> :)
>
> Now at least I can just grab a usb keyboard.
>
>
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