Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] tilde, pipe and other keys on powerbook

[David Bélanger]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 08:20:24PM +0200, Carsten Ruecker wrote:
> jaspal.kallar.gen@×××××.se wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, 27 May 2004, Carsten Ruecker wrote:
> >
> >> i'm trying to get my Powerbook G4 Titanium keyboard to produce characters
> >> like ~|{}[]. So far it didn't work out. Can anybody help?
>
> > Ok, which language do you require for your keyboard and what is the value
> of
> > KEYMAP in /etc/rc.conf ?
>
> well, the language required is german, so my rc.config says
> KEYMAP="de-latin1". That's ok as the umlauts etc. are mapped correctly, but
> special keys like the previously mentioned ones are not available. On the
> MacOSX german keyboard one was required to press something like alt-7 to get
> a pipe-character and alt-n for a tilde, but this doesn't work on Gentoo with
> my current settings. I also tried to load mac-de-latin1 as keymap, which
> rendered my keyboard completely unusable.
>

Hi,

I used xmodmap to map the numpad ENTER key of my iBook to Alt-ch which
is like your alt but for the French Canadian keyboard.

If you can use some program to get the keycode, I could give you the
details in a few hours when I will have access to my iBook.

It would be some command like:
xmodmap -e 'keycode CODE = SYMNAME'
CODE goes for the Alt keycode for your keyboard.  You can find it with:
showkey
and pressing the key.

SYMNAME - I don't remember the name...  Will sent it later.

David

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