Re: Fix for german keymaps in woody on the ibook2
On 16 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > 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?
Well, there's not much choice on the iBook keyboard: you more or less have
to choose the compined alt/Option key, or maybe the small enter key next
to the right Command (Apple) key, but I'm usin that as my second/third
mouse button already...
> > > - key <LWIN> { [ Meta_L ] };
> > > + key <LWIN> { [ Meta_L, Multi_key ] };
> > > key <WWIN> { [ Meta_R ] };
> > > // End "Modifier" section
> >
> > Hmmm, what is Multi_key?
>
> Compose.
Excuse my ignorance, but I've never used a Compose key, so what's it good
for?
Maybe you can point me to some in-depth documentation about xkb (besides
http://www.tsu.ru/~pascal/en/xkb/, which I find quite hard to read...)
> > 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.
You're probably right, but I only know such a keyboard. And for those, it
should really work. (That's why I proposed an xkb variant for the iBook.)
> > 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...
Well, I don't. But it really hurts not to have "|\[]{}~@" !
> > 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 '#'.
Uh, and how do you get umlauts there?
Puzzled,
Siggi
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