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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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Bo Andresen |
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