"Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What I need is an X keyboard configuration tutorial. The
> Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO is long in the tooth and only glances over
> X.
I used this site:
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html
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On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:15:52AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Derek Martin wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:48:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have
> >> happened.
> >
> > Well, I don't think that is or should be a requirement...
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
[...]
For instance to input accents by means of dead keys, and to input
an enormous variety of "combined characters" by means of the
Compose key, on a US keyboard, for instance, you could use
setxkbmap us -variant alt-intl -option compose:rwin
[...]
Thanks, it took m
Mumia W. wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>>Thibaut Paumard wrote:
>>
>>> = e gives €
>>> + - gives ±
>>>...
>>
>>And the Multi_key is?
>>
>
>
> You define the Multi_key using xmodmap.
xmodmap is a bit outdated, and in fact "deprecated" now; see the
"Debian X Window System Frequently Asked Que
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have
> happened.
>
> P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird?
Set up the compose key (I have it set up as the Left Alt key)
Then
compose c =
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Mumia W. wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Thanks. What's ?
>>
>
> Right-Alt key
Of course, how silly of me! :P
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Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
Ron Johnson wrote:
Thanks. What's ?
Right-Alt key
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Ron Johnson wrote:
Thibaut Paumard wrote:
= e gives €
+ - gives ±
...
And the Multi_key is?
You define the Multi_key using xmodmap.
I used the program xev to discover that the right windows key on my
keyboard generates a keycode of 116, and I'm not using Windows, so I can
make it a
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 15:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Thanks. What's ?
Oh. That's the right alt-key on German keyboards.
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Ron Johnson wrote:
When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have
happened.
P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird?
One key on your keyboard might be set aside for composing foreign
characters; this is called the Compose key. To enter a Euro (€) symbol
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Lothar Braun wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 10:48 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have
>> happened.
>>
>> P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird?
>>
>> P.P.S. - How do you
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Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Le dimanche 25 juin 2006 à 10:48 -0500, Ron Johnson a écrit :
>> When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have
>> happened.
>>
>> P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird?
>
> = e giv
Le dimanche 25 juin 2006 à 10:48 -0500, Ron Johnson a écrit :
> When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have
> happened.
>
> P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird?
= e gives €
+ - gives ±
...
> P.P.S. - How do you do the same from the console?
N
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 10:48 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have
> happened.
>
> P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird?
>
> P.P.S. - How do you do the same from the console?
You can use xmodmap for that. I'm using "
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 09:36:59AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:01:21PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen
>> wrote:
[snip]
> Still very relevant, because it is used to tell the application
> which language
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 09:36:59AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:01:21PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote:
> > I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see LANG is
> > set to laguage which exist in the real world such as en, th, fr.
>
> The LANG variable
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Ron Johnson wrote:
> Derek Martin wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:48:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into
Tbird?
>>> Copy-paste from a web page or other source which has it
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Derek Martin wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:48:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have
>> happened.
>
> Well, I don't think that is or should be a requirement... I
> mean, why limit that
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:54:54AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> > P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird?
>
> Copy-paste from a web page or other source which has it? I keep a
> file in my home directory with a few common symbols that are hard or
> impossible to type with
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:48:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have
> happened.
Well, I don't think that is or should be a requirement... I mean, why
limit that idea to just the Euro symbol? Why not include the Yen, or
the Korean Won, th
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Derek Martin wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 07:37:51AM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
[snip]
> While the majority of people in the Windows world have switched
> to XP by now, there are still a surprisingly large number of
> people using Windows 98/ME (
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 07:37:51AM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> I've wondered about that. Why aren't "modern" systems just moving
> straight to Unicode?
Well, as I said, they are. It's mostly the modern PEOPLE who are
not... ;-)
Debian Sarge is pretty good as far as UTF-8 support, though f
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Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> I've wondered about that. Why aren't "modern" systems just
> moving straight to Unicode?
UTF-8 *is* Unicode. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
> Derek Martin wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:01:21PM +0700, Surachai Loch
I've wondered about that. Why aren't "modern" systems just moving
straight to Unicode?
Derek Martin wrote:
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:01:21PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote:
I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see LANG is
set to laguage which exist in the real wor
Ron Johnson wrote:
> I thought C meant "plain *old* ASCII encoding, like what was used on
> the PDP computers that C was written on".
Well, yes, it is US English ASCII. But I have seen it being abused.
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On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:01:21PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote:
> I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see LANG is
> set to laguage which exist in the real world such as en, th, fr.
The LANG variable sets the user's locale, which tells the system what
language and local
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Linas Žvirblis wrote:
> Surachai Locharoen wrote:
>
>> I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see
>> LANG is set to laguage which exist in the real world such as
>> en, th, fr.
>
> It means the default language - the one the appl
Surachai Locharoen wrote:
> I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see LANG is
> set to laguage which exist in the real world such as en, th, fr.
It means the default language - the one the application is actually
written in. In practice this is usually English, but one could
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