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Re: Switching keyboards under X



On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 04:46:34PM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
> I hate to sound sarcastic, but you could make a script tofrench and to
> english, which called the proper xmodmap.  That would save typing.  Or
> is it that xmodmap itself is slow?
> 
> In pseudo-code:
> if filename == tofrench
> 	xmodmap french
> else
> 	xmodmap englsh

Oh, I don't type the lines litteraly, they are bound to <F2> and <F3>
respectively in my shell. It is xmodmap itself that I find slow (2 full
seconds ;-)

> make a script and symlink toenglish and tofrench from it.
> > 
> > Right now I use:
> > 
> > xmodmap /usr/lib/kbd/keytables/us.xmap
> > xmodmap /usr/lib/kbd/keytables/cf.xmap
> > 
> > but this is slow.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?

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     mito@aparima.com


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