On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 01:26:34PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > Most programming languages require the use of braces, brackets, > backslashes and the like which are very awkward to reach on a normal > German keyboard layout. Likewise, and depending on the keyboard, Escape > may be far off, Backspace and Delete switched, and you name it - there > are other oddities on keyboards which make work cumbersome and > straining. These I correct partially with my xmodmap as follows: > > - Select a base layout of en_US (pc105) > - Make "AltGR" let me type in the German Umlauts with ease (and where > they are prointed on the keycaps). > - Swap Backspace and Delete > - Swap 'Escape' and 'Menu' > - Have the few more rarely used keys on AltGR + some other key (eg. > AltGR + 'a' -> å) > > I'm already looking into XKB, but haven't gotten very far. I think you're going to need to define your own custom keyboard layout to achieve all this. :( -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Music is the brandy of the damned. branden@debian.org | -- George Bernard Shaw http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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