Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:35:31PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 06:22:27PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> [...]
> > > * Mac model (ibook, g4, g5, etc)
> >
> > PowerBook G4, [5,8]
> >
> > > * Mac keyboard (USB or not, country variant)
> >
> > internal keyboard, [DE]
> >
> > I made a picture:
> > http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer/keyboard.PBook.g4-5.8.JPG
> > [about 160 KB, and I got an hourly transfer limit of ~4,4 MB .. so you
> > might want being quick if you want to see it .. :)]
>
>
> Sorry, I can do nothing with your xmodmap files at the moment, I need
> to know what is broken so that it can get fixed.
Not necessary: I simply try to be as verbose as possible: That's why I
let you know it ... :)
>
> > Besides: it seems an old annoying issue is still being around here:
> > With your package as, IIRC, with the previous (from about half a year
> > ago or so) xorg/xkb ones 2 keys are swapped here.
>
> Yes, a new 'macbook' model is introduced in 0.8-10exp1.
> I would like to understand which models have to set XkbModel to macbook
> to determine whether it should replace current 'macintosh' or not.
I did a few tests, hoping to not mess up as much as I did yesterday :)
The most important for me: I was not able to get the swapped keys (^°
and <>) back to where they should be.
Some test:
$ pwd
/home/shorty/downloads
[shorty@ 21:09:14]$ dpkg -x xkb-data_0.8-8exp1_all.deb xkb
cd /home/shorty/downloads/xkb/usr/share/X11/xkb
$ pwd
/home/shorty/downloads/xkb/usr/share/X11/xkb
And in this last dir:
*** 1:
setxkbmap -option -model macbook -layout de -variant nodeadkeys -print | xkbcomp - :0
does not help: Console switch via <CTRL>-<ALT>-F(X) is possible, but the swapped keys
("less than" "greater than" <> and the key with that
signs "^°") are still swapped.
SHIFT key working.
Arrow keys, right bottom side, working
*** 2:
setxkbmap -option -model macintosh -layout de -variant nodeadkeys -print | xkbcomp - :0
breaks a lot: shift key broken: that is, no captitals
Console switch via <CTRL>-<ALT>-F(X) impossible
Arrow keys, right bottom side, not working
("less than" "greater than" <> and the key with that signs "^°") are still swapped -- worse:
i only have half of what these keys before had, because the shift key,s gone
getting curious:
*** 3:
setxkbmap -option -model pc105 -layout de -variant nodeadkeys -print | xkbcomp - :0
Console switch via <CTRL>-<ALT>-F(X) possible
Arrow keys, right bottom side, working
("less than" "greater than" <> and the key with that signs "^°") are still swapped
SHIFT key's working
In all tests: with the empty "-option" I hoped to clear all previous
xkb settings .. I hope this worked as expected.
More tests?
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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