On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:41:53 +0300 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:23:27 +0200 > Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:05:26 +0300 > > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:22:40 +0200 > > > Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:54:12 -0600 > > > > Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Just keep in mind also fluxbox for your wm trials, its light > > > > > and > > [...] > > > > possible to switch from the command line using xmodmap (which you > > > can always attach in your setup files to some keys) > > > > Hi > > > > I tried what you wrote, and it works like a charm, like you said, > > except I cannot use it for my tasts for some reason. As you may > > know, Japanese has weird characters, and when I put ja,hu in my > > keymap like you did with (us,il), and I boot up, my Japanese one > > writes characters that arent roman letters, but Japanese Katakana > > letters . WHen I change to the other one, Hungarian, it works great. > > I press the two shift keys, and the light comes up and all. Just the > > default Japanese is messed up. When I have only the "ja" in my > > keymap, then it comes up with Roman alphabet, just the layout is > > Japanese, and I need that because my laptop has the Japanese > > keyboard, with roman letters, but things like @ sign are in a > > different place compare to US keymap, so I use the Japanese. > > > > So my question is, would you happen to know, that when I have only > > "ja" defined, why it works, and when I have "ja,hu" defined, why the > > Japanese starts to show Japanese characters instead of roman > > characters? > > > > Afraid I don't know. I had a look under /etc/X11/xkb/symbols and it > seems I have two japanese keyboards one called jp and one pc/jp. The > first has english letters as regular letters and letters starting kana > for the second (third level I think) keyboardm the other has only the > kana version. seems like a different keymap is chosen depending on > what you enter, not sure why. > > you could try backing up /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/ja (or jp as it is > here) and copying /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ja over it and see if that > works. If it does then it gives a direction for further exploring, if > not we will have to try something else (if it works just remember what > you did as it will be erased with the next X upgrade). Hey, thanks. Works like a charm. I got my original Latin characters back, and I am able to type Hungarian ,and of course I am still able to type Japanese, with kinput-2 and the weird locales I had to set up. So now my lappy has a 3 layout input. That is pretty amazing, thanks again. Ben > > > Thanks > > > > Ben > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
