Hi, On Fri, 08.10.2004 at 17:39:52 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry it has taken a while to follow up to this report.
no problem. > Can you tell us what you're trying to accomplish with your xmodmap > configuration? Perhaps there is an XKB configuration we can recommend that > will serve your needs. Of course: I'm a native speaker of German, not English, and use some other languages on occasion. Example: Swedish, rarely French. My work consists about half of programming and discussing with English speaking people, and the other half is writing texts in German. I'm a user of vi, emacs and LaTeX, too... Most programming languages require the use of braces, brackets, backslashes and the like which are very awkward to reach on a normal German keyboard layout. Likewise, and depending on the keyboard, Escape may be far off, Backspace and Delete switched, and you name it - there are other oddities on keyboards which make work cumbersome and straining. These I correct partially with my xmodmap as follows: - Select a base layout of en_US (pc105) - Make "AltGR" let me type in the German Umlauts with ease (and where they are prointed on the keycaps). - Swap Backspace and Delete - Swap 'Escape' and 'Menu' - Have the few more rarely used keys on AltGR + some other key (eg. AltGR + 'a' -> å) I'm already looking into XKB, but haven't gotten very far. Best, --Toni++
