Re: keyboard HOWTO

[Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <tgakic@chem.tue.nl>]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> In Keyboard HOWTO I found this:
> 
> ...
> 
>   8.5.  Composing symbols
> 
>   One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes.
> 
>   o  LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on the keypad,
>      followed by LeftAlt-release, yields the symbol with code given by
>      this number.  (In Unicode mode this same mechanism, but then with 4
>      hexadecimal digits, may be used to define a Unicode symbol.)
> 
> ...
> 
> I have tried LeftAlt with numbers from keypad and the others,
> I tried RightAlt, windows keys, menu key, anything else I could
> imagine. If press LeftAlt key and I type 123 and then I release
> LeftAlt I don't get {, but instead I get 123 in the same time I
> type it not after I release the LeftAlt key.
> 
> I would like to know if this feature is working for someone
> on the list.
> 

Thank you all for your answers.

I have the solution to my problem. I simply needed this:

        alt     keycode  71 = Ascii_7
        alt     keycode  72 = Ascii_8
        alt     keycode  73 = Ascii_9
        alt     keycode  75 = Ascii_4
        alt     keycode  76 = Ascii_5
        alt     keycode  77 = Ascii_6
        alt     keycode  79 = Ascii_1
        alt     keycode  80 = Ascii_2
        alt     keycode  81 = Ascii_3
        alt     keycode  82 = Ascii_0

in my /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz and now leftAlt + numbers
from KP (whatever the status of NumLock is) give the the symbol
coresponding to the decimal ascii code I type.

LeftAlt press KP_1 KP_2 KP_3 LeftAlt release  ->  {


It would be nice if this feature can be enabled on the X as
well, but from the list of symbols in 
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/keysymdef.h and 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
it was not possible to find something equivalent to Ascii_1
from the console.


Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă