Map a key to another key as keyboard damaged

[esafwan]

My @ or 2 key is not working. I want to set it like, if user press Alt + a or something the 2 should be inserted to the active window. I have achieved this in windows using Auto It. In ubuntu i saw some solutions but couldn't do it. Any help would be appreciated. Or else i will be forced to move back to windows :-(

[gmargo]

I don't know about using an Alt combination, but it is relatively easy to map another key to be your "2" key.

In this post I went over how to map the Menu key to another key:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1791033&highlight=xmodmap

Just change the xmodmap input to be:


keycode 135 = 2 at 2 at
Now the Menu key (to right of space bar) is a "2" key.

Test it first with this command:


xmodmap -e "keycode 135 = 2 at 2 at"