Re: Keyboard problem

[Emil Carlsson <emil.carlsson@euromail.se>]

Thanks, actually, now I got a full keyboard and then some ;)

norton wrote:

> this one: | ?
> I have no idea what you're talking about 8-)
>
> guess the name: bar.
>
> if you go to /usr/lib/X11/locale you'll see a lot of locales for your
> computer... pick one, say, iso8859-1
> cd iso8859-1
>
> and see the Compose file... it will show you a lot of these tricky codes
>
> just in case you need for C:
>
> |  bar
> \  backslash
> ~  asciitilde
> {  braceleft
> }  braceright
>
> take a look in that file and you'll see what you can do with your
> keyboard 8-)
>
> cheers
>
>
> Em Qui, 2004-06-17 às 16:25, Emil Carlsson escreveu:
>  
>
> > thank you, it solved half my problem anyway... the other half is the 
> > single bar ont alt gr and that key... now I got the < and the > (thank 
> > you again). Do you know the name of the bar? it's like a capital I or a 
> > common l but larger... do you understand what sign I mean?
> >
> > /Emil
> >
> > norton wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > well, I don't know this keyboard... so, that's what I think you should
> > > do:
> > >
> > > 1) run xev in a shell
> > > 2) press the key (without shift just the key)
> > > 3) read the output... find the "keycode X", where X is a number
> > >  (mine is keycode 59 for <)
> > > 4) cd $HOME
> > > 5) Create a file named .Xmodmap (debian will use it automatically when
> > > you log in)
> > > 6) In this file write:
> > > keycode X = V1	V2
> > > where X is the keycode, V1 is the character printed when the key is
> > > pressed and V2 is the character printed when shift+the_key are pressed.
> > >
> > > A practical example:
> > > in my keyboard, keycode = 59, and the key prints a "," if pressed and a
> > > "<" if shift+key are pressed, so the entry will look like
> > >
> > > keycode 59 = comma	less
> > >
> > > (to help, "," is comma, "<" is less, "." is period and ">" is greater
> > > 7) then, xmodmap .Xmodmap to test
> > >
> > > Next time you log in, debian will load the map .Xmodmap automatically
> > >
> > > I hope it helps you
> > >
> > > Em Qui, 2004-06-17 às 15:25, Emil Carlsson escreveu:
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > I've gotten my keyboard to work just to the brink of one key! I need a 
> > > > swedish keyboard but it won't give me the key left of the space key, the 
> > > > key that generates < and >. It's fairly hard to program without them ;)
> > > >
> > > > I realized the problem when I started to study C and was going to make 
> > > > my first program and I couldn't hit those keys... Greatful for help
> > > >
> > > > /Emil
> > > >   
> > > >
> > > >