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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> On Sunday 25 June 2006 13:27, Robert Persson wrote: |
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>> I want to be able to use an international keyboard layout in X. |
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>> Something like the Apple U.S. layout would be really nice, but the U.S. |
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>> English Alternative International would do me fine for the moment. |
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> I have no experience with gnome so can't help you there. To get the us |
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> international keryborad layout now you should be able to do: |
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> # setxkbmap us_intl |
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> To get it permanently you can edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and find the XkbLayout |
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> Option in the InputDevice section that relates to your keyboard: |
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> Section "InputDevice" |
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> Identifier "???" |
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> Driver "kbd" |
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> [...] |
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> Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl" |
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> EndSection |
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Thanks Bo. |
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The problem I have is not in choosing us_intl, which is quite easy in |
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gnome. The problem is that I don't know how to get it so that when I |
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press either the alt or the win key I get all those extra characters. |
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There's a lot of terminology I don't understand. Am I trying to "switch |
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group" or am I trying to "choose the third level"? Both of these terms |
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sound like what I am trying to do, but which is which? Added to that is |
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all this business about alt being set or not being set to meta and so |
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on. I don't really have a clue when alt is actually alt and when it is |
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meta, just as I don't understand the difference between alt and option |
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when I am trying to run a remote linux session in Apple X11. So I end up |
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twiddling with the settings, trying one thing and then another, but I |
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haven't yet managed to get to those extra characters. Compare this to |
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macos, even very ancient version of it, where you get a very rich |
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keyboard layout out of the box. Not only umlauts, but bullets, ellipses |
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and the 2nd letter of the Danish alphabet are available at the press of |
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the alt/option key. |
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The second issue is that the US international keyboard, which I am |
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planning to use, isn't exactly ideal. It was designed for an ordinary |
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typewriter, where diareses and double quotes, as well as carets and |
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circumflexes, are identical. But it is the only extended US keyboard |
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readily available for X, which is the only reason I even consider using |
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it. However it is actually unusable on a desktop without the extra |
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modifier keys working because, where the standard US keyboard has |
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quotes, carets and tildes, this one only has dead keys. |
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And even when the modifiers are working, this layout is unnecessarily |
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awkward to use for someone writing predominantly in English because |
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frequently used characters, such as quotes, are harder to type than the |
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foreign language characters that are only used occasionally. As I said, |
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the Apple keyboard layouts are vastly superior. Unfortunately my |
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attempts to create a custom, Apple-like layout (when I was using KDE) |
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didn't work. I just don't understand xkb well enough. |
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