On 15 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 20:30, Lukas Geyer wrote:
> > The debian keymaps for X are broken for german ibooks. However, there is a
> > quick and dirty fix which I attach. I do not know if US keymaps break with
> > this fix,
>
> You don't know??? Have you looked at your patch? ;) You remove Meta_L...
O.K., i did not really pay attention to that because i never use Meta
anyway :) But I guess some people really need it, so it should be made
configurable somehow.
> How about this one:
>
> --- /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/us.orig Tue Jan 15 20:38:04 2002
> +++ /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/us Tue Jan 15 20:38:49 2002
> @@ -129,9 +129,9 @@
> key <RTSH> { [ Shift_R ] };
> key <LCTL> { [ Control_L ] };
> key <RCTL> { [ Control_R ] };
> - key <LALT> { [ Alt_L ] };
> + key <LALT> { [ Alt_L, Mode_switch ] };
> key <RALT> { [ Alt_R ] };
> - key <LWIN> { [ Meta_L ] };
> + key <LWIN> { [ Meta_L, Multi_key ] };
> key <WWIN> { [ Meta_R ] };
> // End "Modifier" section
>
>
> This should put 'AltGr' on shift-alt/option and 'Compose' on
> shift-command/apple (or vice versa, depending on your alt/meta
> settings).
O.K., at least all characters should be producable with this. However, I
prefer having AltGr (or the equivalent) really on only one key because it
is needed to produce {}[]|\~@ on german keyboards. So I would prefer
something like
key <LALT> { [ Alt_L, Meta_L ] };
key <LWIN> { [ Mode_switch, Multi_key ] };
I do not know how to turn this choice (Meta or AltGr on one or two keys
resp.) into a configurable option via xkb, but in my opinion this would be
the right solution.
Lukas
