The Humble Indie Bundle #4 was nice enough to bring Super Meat Boy and a bunch of other great games to Linux. The SMB people however seem to want to punish you for playing on a keyboard and leave you with SPACE as jump, SHIFT as run, and no way to reconfigure the keys.

Here is a little xmodmap script that makes playing on a keyboard much more enjoyable:

keysym x = space
keysym z = Shift_L

Just save this as xmodmap.meat and then run xmodmap -pke > xmodmap.orig to save your original key settings.

Finally, run xmodmap xmodmap.meat before starting the game, and xmodmap xmodmap.orig when you're done.

Tags: Software Linux