Bug#379292: xkb-data hr layout broke the normal AltGr+numbers behaviour
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:48:48AM +0200, Vedran Furač wrote:
> >>> This change annoys me to no end, because right now in order for me to get
> >>> the characters tilde (~) or caret (^) I have to make three keypresses
> >>> instead of two like everywhere else.
> >>
> >> /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/hr does not contain any such definition, this
> >> is a configuration problem on your side. Can you please check?
> >
> > I don't understand what you are saying. If you have a PC keyboard with AltGr,
> > what happens once you run 'setxkbmap hr' and then type AltGr+3?
>
> You can get tilde with shift and that key left of 1/!.
That's fine, but I don't just want the tilde, I want the caret back to two
keypresses, too. And the backtick, and sometimes the double acute, and all
the others.
The compose functionality is nifty, I agree, but it's simply not a feature
of the standard Croatian keyboard layout and should be relegated back to an
option.
> If you want to go back, just add:
>
> key <AE01> { [ 1, exclam, asciitilde, dead_tilde ] };
>
> after include "cs(latin)" in your symbols/hr. It should look like this:
>
> xkb_symbols "basic" {
> name[Group1]="Croatia";
> include "cs(latin)"
> key <AE01> { [ 1, exclam, asciitilde, dead_tilde ] };
> };
> [...]
That idea is lacking for several reasons - first of all, that file is now in
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/hr, and is no longer marked as a configuration
file. Secondly, the fix would only affect my machine, and not all the others
where people also expect the old behaviour to continue working.
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