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Hello, Gentoo. |
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 03:51:43PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> The two keyboard layouts I use in XFCE are both fine and dandy, but they |
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> are incomplete. In particular, I want the key combination |
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> <Ctrl><Alt><shift><F1> to take me to tty13 in the same way that |
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> <Ctrl><Alt><F1> takes me to tty1. |
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> I've been searching for _hours_ trying to find out how to do this. I |
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> cannot find the keyboard layouts anywhere under /usr/share, where one |
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> might expect them. I can't find any relevant programs to manipulate |
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> these data files with, even if I could find them. |
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> Would somebody help me please. Where are the X keyboard layouts stored, |
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> and what program to I need to enhance them? |
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> TIA! |
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Well, I've nailed it, but it took me the best part of two days. The X |
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keyboard setup, called xkb, is much more complicated than that for the |
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virtual terminal, probably needlessly. I can't see what this extra |
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complexity gains. |
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Three files needed amending, they being under /usr/share/X11/xkb: |
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1: /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/srvr_ctrl, where the actions for the Fn |
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keys are defined. They were defined as being of type "CTRL+ALT" which |
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allowed Fn to be pressed together with any combination of <shift> and |
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<AltGr>, together with <Ctrl>-<Alt>-Fn. This involved replacing the |
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type with a new type "CTRL+ALT+SHIFT", which had to be defined in .... |
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2: /usr/share/X11/xkb/types/pc. The new type "CTRL+ALT+SHIFT" was easy |
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enough to clone from "CTRL+ALT", then amend. |
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3: /usr/share/X11/xkb/compat/xfree86. In this file, wierdly classified |
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"compatibility" (i.e. action) settings are made. Here it was necessary |
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to realise that "XF86_Switch_VT_1", etc, were, intrinsically, symbols |
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without a specific meaning. Only an entry in this file actually made |
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XF86_Switch_VT_1 do anything. Having grasped this, it was necessary to |
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use other otherwise meaningless symbols for the action "go to terminal |
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13", etc. F13, F14, ..., F24 happened to be defined, and they worked. |
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Phew! Thank goodness for the tutorials I managed to find online. The |
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one that was most useful was at |
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<http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/html/index.html>. |
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So all I've got to do now is make a patch and put it into |
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/etc/portage/patches so that I won't lose the changes at the next update |
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of xkb. |
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> -- |
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> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |