Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:24:38PM +0200, Yannick Roehlly wrote:
> Denis Barbier wrote:
> 
> > If you set XkbModel to 'ibook', the small Enter key (keycode 108) becomes
> > ISO_Level3_Shift.
> 
> Hi Denis,
> 
> With the new xkb stuff, is it possible to tweak separately de keymaps of the
> ibook keyboard and the external usb keyboard one?

Unfortunately no.  With these experimental changes in XKB, you can use 2
groups and switch between them, but this feature is used to switch between
layouts on the same pĥysical keyboard.  What you want seems to be more
an X issue than an XKB problem.

> >> There's also the problem of the lack of multi-key (for instance if you
> >> want to make a ??.
> > 
> > See compose:* options in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
> 
> On a mac keyboard, does the Win-key correspond to the apple key?

Yes.

Denis