On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 01:24:48PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004, Ira Abramov wrote about "Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux > ?": > > just this week we discussed how to have alt-shin be mapped to alt-A, and > > the answer was "very simple, just fix the xmodmap". I always freak out > > when I'm writing in English in one window and some szlob in an ICQ > > window wants me to write him in Hebrew. since the keyboard mapping is > > global and nor per-window I always slip up and enter the wrong language > > in the wrong window. annoying. > > > > I think that until such small annoyances are resolved in X, > > I also find this very annoying. > > About a year ago I suggested on this list (I think) that this feature is > important, and to do it you don't need to change X. All you need to do is > write a seperate X program, call it (say) a "Keymap manager", which will > follow keymap changes events and focus change events (and perhaps more > similar events), and remember which keymap each window wants, and switch > keymaps whenever the "current window" changes.
I tried fiddling with this a while ago. It seems that it can't be done by an external client and must be done by the window manager. Currently the only WM that implements it AFAIK is WindowMaker. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
