Was reading this article on customizing Ubuntu today. Nothing really new in there for me except for this nugget:

There’s an old practical joke where people pry the keys off a keyboard and replace them out of order. A user who is not a touch typist can get really confused when they look for the right letters. The xmodmap command can be used for an excellent alternative to this prank. For example, you can add the following commands into the victim’s .bashrc file:xmodmap -e ‘keycode 91 = t T’
xmodmap -e ‘keycode 92 = s S’

This prank swaps the s and t keys on the keyboard without requiring any physical keyboard modifications. Alternately, if you can pry up and replace the keys on the keyboard, follow it up by remapping the keyboard so it actually works correctly!

Never thought of that before. Now I have no choice but to try it out.

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