Bug#255011: xlibs: mapping for macintosh/ca

[Denis Barbier <denis31.barbier@free.fr>]

Selon simon@nuit.ca:

> > Simon, does
> >   setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout ca -option altwin:rwin_switch
> > fit your needs?
>
> trying it now...
>
> the same as the default macintosh/ca.

This is my point, there is no need to copy symbols/ca to symbols/macintosh/ca,
setting model to pc105 works as well (or as bad ;))

> the iso_3level_shift (or whatever
> that thing is called) still ends up on r_ctrl, and the command keys ("apple")
> get unused, and the right one still gets mapped to the left one (Meta_L,
> IIRC).

This has been fixed and will be available at next upload.
Maybe you could try a newer version available at
  http://people.debian.org/~barbier/xkb/xkb-4.3.0.dfsg.1-8+SVN.tar.bz2
(this is not the latest version, but it contains newer Canadian layouts).
I believe that you can run the setxkbmap command above from the xkb toplevel
directory, there is no need to overwrite /etc/X11/xkb.

> IOW, not satisfactory. and if i set it up in such a way where the
> 3rd_level characters are mapped to command instead of r_ctrl, apps like
> mozilla(-firefox,thunderbird,...) don't see the key press. this is via
> xmodmap - yes xmodmap.

What does that mean?  You can't type 3rd level characters within mozilla?
What does xev display when you press these special keys?  Please do not
run xmodmap before xev so that XKB raw data are displayed.

--
Denis