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Sorry for taking so long to reply to this. |
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My mistake was to assume that all changes in gnome keyboard preferences |
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took effect immediately. That's why nothing seemed to work. I now have |
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the win keys as 3rd level choosers and I can type |
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åååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååå to my heart's content. I was also |
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unaware that you could use the space key after a deadkey, which is a lot |
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easier than a vulcan nerve pinch. Anyway, thanks very much for your |
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help, Bo. |
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One further question I have is, does anyone know a good guide to |
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customising a keyboard layout and installing it properly so that X will |
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recognise it? The guide I have tried so far didn't work for me. I simply |
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want to add a few characters (e.g. em_dash) to the empty spaces on the |
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US international keyboard. |
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btw, the mac keyboard article Bo suggested was about how to make mac |
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modifier keys useful under linux and not about keyboard layouts as such. |
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Many thanks, |
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Robert |
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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> On Monday 26 June 2006 01:36, Robert Persson wrote: |
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>> 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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> I don't think that pressing alt, win or meta should provide any extra |
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> characters with the us international keyboard layout. |
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>> Added to that is all this business about alt being set or not being set to |
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>> meta and so on. |
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> I don't think that is relevant to the layout. Only to functionality in certain |
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> programs like e.g. emacs as you mentioned. Many others too. |
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>> Compare this to macos, even very ancient version of it, where you get a very |
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>> rich keyboard layout out of the box. |
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> I wouldn't know... |
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>> Not only umlauts, but bullets, ellipses and the 2nd letter of the Danish |
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>> alphabet are available at the press of the alt/option key. |
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> The second letter in the danish alphabet is b... ;) |
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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. |
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> Are you absolutely sure they are identical? When I press a dead key once |
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> nothing happens. The following press be it the say key, space or some vowel |
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> determines what it becomes... |
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>> But it is the only extended US keyboard readily available for X, which is |
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>> the only reason I even consider using it. However it is actually unusable on |
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>> a desktop without the extra modifier keys working because, where the |
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>> standard US keyboard has quotes, carets and tildes, this one only has dead |
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>> keys. |
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> You should not need modifier keys for that. Just AltGr (the right alt key on |
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> my keyboard). |
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>> As I said, 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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> Does [1] help you? |
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> [1] http://hansmi.ch/articles/apple-keyboard-with-linux |
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