On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:19:41PM +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > The British variant of the Macintosh keyboard layout on my Powerbook has > one fairly annoying problem: the keyboard has no # on it. The way Apple > solves this is to make meta-3 generate #. > > (I'm at debcamp if you want to examine this directly.)
I don't recall that we did, but... 1) Do you have an AltGr key? Does it work? 2) If so, please replace your /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/gb with the attached file and let me know if that works. 3) According to the 4.2.1 gb symbols file, you get a "numbersign" keysym by pressing the key that is located where the backslash key is on a U.S. keyboard (it's not an ISO-standardized key location, apparently, so XFree86 just calls it "<BKSL>".). Again according to the file, this key should also be engraved with a tilde, so SHIFT-# should get you ~. Is this correct? I haven't sorted my pictures from DebCamp/DebConf yet, so I don't know if I took a picture of a UK keyboard yet. -- G. Branden Robinson | Fair use is irrelevant and Debian GNU/Linux | improper. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Asst. U.S. Attorney Scott http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | Frewing, explaining the DMCA
// $Xorg: gb,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:43 cpqbld Exp $
// $XFree86: xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/gb,v 3.4 2001/01/17 23:45:58 dawes Exp
$
partial default alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "basic" {
// Describes the differences between a very simple en_US
// keyboard and a very simple U.K. keyboard layout defined by
// the SVR4 European Language Supplement and sometimes also
// known as the IBM 166 layout.
name[Group1]= "Great Britain";
key <TLDE> { [ grave, notsign ],
[ bar, bar ] };
key <LSGT> { [ backslash, bar ],
[ bar, brokenbar ] };
key <AE02> { [ 2, quotedbl ] };
key <AE03> { [ 3, sterling ],
[ numbersign, NoSymbol ] };
key <AE04> { [ 4, dollar ],
[ EuroSign, NoSymbol ] };
key <AC11> { [ apostrophe, at ] };
key <BKSL> { [ numbersign, asciitilde ] };
// End alphanumeric section
// begin modifier mappings
modifier_map Shift { Shift_L };
modifier_map Lock { Caps_Lock };
modifier_map Control{ Control_L };
modifier_map Mod3 { Mode_switch };
};
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "ibm168" {
// Describes the differences between a very simple en_US
// keyboard and a very simple U.K. keyboard
// Based on the IBM 168
name[Group1]= "Great Britain";
key <TLDE> { [ backslash, bar ] };
key <LSGT> { [ brokenbar, horizconnector ] };
key <AE02> { [ 2, quotedbl ],
[ twosuperior, twosuperior ] };
key <AE03> { [ 3, sterling ],
[ threesuperior, threesuperior ] };
key <AE05> { [ 5, percent ],
[ onehalf, onehalf ] };
key <AE07> { [ 7 ] };
key <AE08> { [ 8, parenleft ] };
key <AE09> { [ 9, parenright ],
[ plusminus, plusminus ] };
key <AE10> { [ 0, numbersign ],
[ degree, degree ] };
key <AE11> { [ minus, equal ] };
key <AE12> { [ notsign, underscore ] };
key <AD11> { [ at, grave ] };
key <AD12> { [ bracketleft, braceleft ],
[ asciitilde, asciitilde ] };
key <AC10> { [ semicolon, plus ] };
key <AC11> { [ colon, periodcentered ],
[ caret, caret ] };
key <AB07> { [ m, M ],
[ mu, mu ] };
key <BKSL> { [ bracketright, braceright ] };
// End alphanumeric section
// begin modifier mappings
modifier_map Shift { Shift_L };
modifier_map Lock { Caps_Lock };
modifier_map Control{ Control_L };
modifier_map Mod3 { Mode_switch };
};
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "Sundeadkeys" {
include "gb(basic)" // for naming consistency
};
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "sundeadkeys" {
include "gb(Sundeadkeys)" // for naming consistency
};
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "nodeadkeys" {
include "gb(basic)" // for naming consistency
};
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