Re: Fix for german keymaps in woody on the ibook2
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 00:47, Siggi Langauf wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> > How about this one:
> >
> > - key <LALT> { [ Alt_L ] };
> > + key <LALT> { [ Alt_L, Mode_switch ] };
>
> That's a bad idea, as Mode_switch should really be one key ("\" is
> produced by Shift+Mode_switch+7, for example)
I see, but the question is what key to sacrifice for it?
> > - key <LWIN> { [ Meta_L ] };
> > + key <LWIN> { [ Meta_L, Multi_key ] };
> > key <WWIN> { [ Meta_R ] };
> > // End "Modifier" section
>
> Hmmm, what is Multi_key?
Compose.
> > This should put 'AltGr' on shift-alt/option and 'Compose' on
> > shift-command/apple (or vice versa, depending on your alt/meta
> > settings).
>
> IMHO, we should really keep compatibility with MacOS keymaps, ie
> "AltGr" functionality provided by the "Option" ("Alt") key, at least as an
> option.
> It's really irritating if the keys are labelled one way, but produce
> something else...
But "Alt" and "AltGr" are two different things in the X world. The
problem is really that some Apple keyboards don't have two
(distinguishable) alt keys.
> I'm currently using xmodmap as a quick&dirty fix, like this:
>
> cat <<END | xmodmap -
> clear mod1
> keycode 64 = Mode_switch
> END
>
> If I ever understand xkb (it's hardly documented...), I'd add an Xkb
> variant for iBooks...
Some people will probably miss the actual "Alt" with this...
> Btw: Michel: What's your solution for that? Using an US keymap? Or a
> bigger (non-iBook) keyboard??
A US keyboard. :) British Pismo to be exact, but AFAICT the only
difference is there's a pound sign where there should be a '#'.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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