Re: American keyboard
On Saturday 04 February 2006 2:56 pm, Matej Cepl wrote:
> there too) including my preferred "Both Shift keys together change
> group" (in short you can imagine group being an equivalent of the different
> national layout). Then I just press both SHIFT keys and I have US keyboard
> (from the default Czech).
I wonder if this has something to do with what the main layout is. I tried
playing around with this option just now, and it doesn't seem to do anything
at all. In the Spanish keyboard layout, the AltGr (Right Alt) key doesn't
work either, unless I also press Right Ctrl, so to get a > I have to hit
Right Ctrl+Right Alt+Right Shift+x, which really sucks. As such, it would be
really cool to come up with a quick way to swap layouts on the fly, so I can
go back to the real layout to enter symbols like this. (Programming must
*suck* for everyone not using an English keyboard layout.)
I've never been able to make heads or tails of what the various "Xkb Options"
things do, and/or none of them have ever actually worked. I never did get
the Windows keys working either. The closest I came was winding up in a
state where pressing one of them would freeze my kernel.
Ah well, I'm mostly just complaining to hear myself talk, I guess. I've
figured out how to accomplish everything I need to accomplish. It just isn't
as tidy as I'd like, and it has a faint air of being broken, so that I'd be
confused if I ever used a Spanish keyboard setup that actually worked the way
it normally does.
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