On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:22, Siggi Langauf wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> > > That's a bad idea, as Mode_switch should really be one key ("\" is
> > > produced by Shift+Mode_switch+7, for example)
> >
> > I see, but the question is what key to sacrifice for it?
>
> Well, there's not much choice on the iBook keyboard: you more or less have
> to choose the compined alt/Option key, or maybe the small enter key next
> to the right Command (Apple) key, but I'm usin that as my second/third
> mouse button already...
Let's leave that out of the picture for now, this could be an
interesting lead... does that key have keycode 108 in X?
> > > > - key <LWIN> { [ Meta_L ] };
> > > > + key <LWIN> { [ Meta_L, Multi_key ] };
> > > > key <WWIN> { [ Meta_R ] };
> > > > // End "Modifier" section
> > >
> > > Hmmm, what is Multi_key?
> >
> > Compose.
>
> Excuse my ignorance, but I've never used a Compose key, so what's it good
> for?
So you've never used a Sun keyboard. :)
You press and release Compose, then you press and release two keys one
after another, and the result is the combination of the two (if it
exists). E.g. compose, '~', 'n' => ñ. That way, you can get virtually
any symbol.
> Maybe you can point me to some in-depth documentation about xkb (besides
> http://www.tsu.ru/~pascal/en/xkb/, which I find quite hard to read...)
I'm afraid that's the single most useful documentation about Xkb... I
had forgotten this even exists. :)
> > > Btw: Michel: What's your solution for that? Using an US keymap? Or a
> > > bigger (non-iBook) keyboard??
> >
> > A US keyboard. :) British Pismo to be exact, but AFAICT the only
> > difference is there's a pound sign where there should be a '#'.
>
> Uh, and how do you get umlauts there?
I use xmodmap to turn the Enter key (keycode 108) on the right of the
space bar into Mode_switch and Multi_key.
I wonder if something like this could be a general solution, at least as
an Xkb option?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
