Re: German keyboard and X on PB Ti 1GHz

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 18:58, Krisztian Mark Szentes wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 04 June 2003 01:45, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 00:07, Krisztian Mark Szentes wrote:
> > > Whoever is the maintainer for X (Mr. Dänzer?), you could perhaps
> > > include a new keymap variant like xfree86/macintosh/de/pc-like where
> > > there is an AltGR key.
> >
> > An addition to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/alt or something might be better.
> >
> > Anyway, don't expect any work from me in this area, except maybe helping
> > to get patches integrated.
> thanks for the hand you give us. I would get into it but I did not find the 
> documentation for the keymaps in XFree86. 
> 
> The /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/alt seems to be a good place but I do not know its 
> syntax.

The best source of information about Xkb I know is
http://www.tsu.ru/~pascal/en/xkb/ .

> All I need is:
> keycode 108 = Mode_switch
> 
> It should be something like this:
> 
> // make the Keypad Enter right of the space bar ALTGR key 
> partial modifier_keys
> xkb_symbols "powerbookenterisaltgr" {
>     key <KP_Enter> {        [       Mode_switch       ]       };
> };
> 
> ? or:
> 
>     key <KP_Enter>  {  symbols[Group1] = [ Mode_switch ] };

I don't know, but maybe rather call it something like "kpenterisaltgr"?
Who knows, maybe this can be useful with other machines as well.


> I have to check where to chose the XkbVariant, because the Option 
> "XkbVariant" "powerbookenterisaltgr" doesn't make any difference.

AFAIK

	Option	"XkbOptions"	"alt:powerbookenterisaltgr"

should enable it.


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