I am not asking about selecting keymaps.  I am asking about editing keys inside a keymap or whatever it is called.

Open the kmap in text editor.
On US pc102 keyboard for example:
I look for which keycode = z
 keycode 21 = z
I change to:
#keycode 21 = z
keycode 21 = y
I look for the which keycode = y
keycode 44 = y
I change to :
#keycode 44 = y
keycode 44 = z

I cannot open /usr/share/kmap/*.kmap with a text editor.  There are many keyboard files and directories scattered in the filesystem that so far either do not open or edits to them have no effect.

Install kbd-base.tazpkg
This installs to /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386
gunzip the keymap to read it.
The us.map says it is combined with 4 include files :
# us.map
keymaps 0-2,4-6,8-9,12
alt_is_meta
include "qwerty-layout"
include "linux-with-alt-and-altgr"
include "compose.latin1"
include "euro1.map"
strings as usual
Look at each file until you find what you want to edit.
gzip the us.map file when done
The qwerty-layout.inc is the include file with the keycodes for letters including z and y
I edit,save,load map.gz,convert to binary kmap,load kmap.
#loadkeys /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/us.map.gz
Create the busybox binary kmap file.
#dumpkmap > mojos.kmap
#mv mojos.kmap /usr/share/kmap
#loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/mojos.kmap
Logout X Session
Login X Session, open xterm
When I press z key terminal prints y
When I press y key terminal prints z

To change back to previous keymap:
#loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/us.kmap
Logout/in X Session

To use /sbin/tazkeymap you have to add new entry.
Open in text editor as root
Add your new keymap under "us" "USA" /
Follow same format


Custom cook a kbd-busybox.tazpkg to include your keymap:
Clone the wok,go to kbd-base/stuff
Add your keymap to keymaps-path.list (keymap whitelist)
#tazwok cook kbd-busybox

I did all this before starting this thread but it did not work then and still does not work now.

Install kbd-base.tazpkg
This installs to /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386
gunzip the keymap to read it.
The us.map says it is combined with 4 include files :
# us.map
keymaps 0-2,4-6,8-9,12
alt_is_meta
include "qwerty-layout"
include "linux-with-alt-and-altgr"
include "compose.latin1"
include "euro1.map"
strings as usual
Look at each file until you find what you want to edit.
gzip the us.map file when done
The qwerty-layout.inc is the include file with the keycodes for letters including z and y
I edit,save,and load to test the edit.

The test failed after reboot so I stopped there.

Is the next part necessary to change the keys?  It looks like it only saves the changes under a different name.

#loadkmap us.map.gz
Create the busybox binary kmap file.
#dumpkmap > mojos.kmap
#mv mojos.kmap /usr/share/kmap
#subox tazkeymap
Choose mojos

Custom cook a kbd-busybox.tazpkg to include your keymap:
Clone the wok,go to kbd-base/stuff
Add your keymap to keymaps-path.list (keymap whitelist)
#tazwok cook kbd-busybox

I am not sure that my system uses any of those files that I edited.

I revised the instructions in my previous post.
Procedure works on slitaz-2.0 xvesa

The third directions did not work either.  It looks like your file system is different.

I changed the filepath to ~/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz and then it worked on live cd and a fresh hd installation but not the earlier earlier hd installation.

As root
Install kbd-base with any depends
Edit /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/include/*.inc
# loadkeys /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz
# dumpkmap > /usr/share/kmap/us.kmap
# loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/us.kmap
Re-login

That works on a fresh hd but installing other packages breaks it, testing custom compound keystrokes.  Xorg hijacks the system.  It might be related to wine.

How can I purge xorg from the keyboard?

Thank you